Feeling very selfish but sooo gutted about potential childcare reforms

[DownInTheDumpster]

amp.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/10/treasury-considering-huge-expansion-free-childcare-england

Obviously these are only just ideas floating around currently and overall it is 100% necessary changes and a brilliant brilliant thing for parents and children and society as a whole.

But god as someone who has paid 60k so far in childcare and is crawling to the end point of child starting school it’s killing me that if we had left it a few years later we might not have had to pay so much. Childcare has crippled us and I’m thrilled it won’t be the same for others in future but it pains me that we will have missed out on this (potentially!).

Anyone want to share in my pain?

I will hopefully benefit from the change. But if I’d been born 10 years earlier, I’d have benefited from no tuition fees, less student debt and cheaper house prices. Swings and roundabouts in life.

They need to address how much they pay childcare providers as part of 30 hours before they roll it out to younger age groups. Just saying oh let's give it to all kids 9 months plus and not dealing with how little they pay will just mean childcare providers will refuse to provide the spaces when it's expanded so parents won't see any benefit