Labour’s free childcare coverage doesn’t go far sufficient | Childcare

Polly Toynbee is true to reward the federal government’s funding in our youngsters’s future by selling free breakfast golf equipment and further nursery locations (To those that query what Labour stands for – take a look at Greatest Begin. It’s going to change Britain’s future, 8 July). Nevertheless, as regards the free childcare for preschool kids of 30 hours every week from September, what is never mentioned is that the 30 hours are termtime solely. Most nurseries are open all yr spherical. Few working dad and mom have the posh of working solely in termtime, and it really equates to free childcare of round 22 hours per week all yr spherical. This nearly covers the price of working three, not 4, full working days. So please can individuals be sincere about what’s being supplied.Estelle SmartMalvern, Worcestershire

In response to Polly Toynbee’s wonderful article on the federal government’s plans to convey again Certain Begin, rebranded as Greatest Begin Household Hubs, there was no point out of the quite a few small charity initiatives around the nation, such because the one we’ve got in our city, which have tried to maintain its legacy alive. The council and neighborhood teams got here collectively to take the transition grant supplied when our youngsters’s centre closed, and stored a few of its important core providers going. Will there be funding for small community-based hubs corresponding to ours in order that households can entry help in their very own neighbourhoods? I do hope so.Joanna CaveFaringdon, Oxfordshire

So Polly Toynbee thinks that Labour has at all times put kids first. Besides, that’s, for the hundreds of youngsters massacred, injured, starved and orphaned in Gaza. About them, Labour couldn’t care much less.Alastair McLeishEdinburgh

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