Education secretary makes childcare expansion pledge to ‘all parents’

All parents will be able to access childcare under expanded offer, says education secretarySource: Parliament TV

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00:00 So will the Secretary of State now guarantee that all parents will be able to access the

00:04 childcare places that she promised?

00:06 Absolutely, and I set out in my topical statement.

00:10 And we're working with every local authority to ensure that the places are available.

00:16 But I'm glad the Honourable Lady mentions childcare because it's yet another policy

00:20 that the Labour Party have no plan for.

00:24 We're delivering the largest expansion of childcare in history.

00:27 So working parents of children from nine months to starting school will get 30 hours

00:33 childcare a week.

00:34 The real question is what is Labour's plan?

00:37 Well, nobody knows because they don't have one.

00:39 It's very clear the Conservatives are the only party with a plan for working parents.