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Really impressed with the budget

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Fullrecoveryispossible · 15/03/2023 13:34

I’ll give it to the chancellor. He delivered a bloody good budget today. Childcare reform (including increasing rates paid to providers by 30%) and 30 hours free for 1&2 year olds. Uk has avoided recession despite a global pandemic and Ukrainian war, more money on occupational health, plan to get more people into work

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itsjustnotok · 15/03/2023 13:38

@Fullrecoveryispossible amazing how as usual they manage to find money when they keep saying there isn’t any to give.

StylishM · 15/03/2023 13:40

I agree but I'm slightly dismayed at the delays to the childcare funding - you would have to conceive at Christmas 2024 (21 months away) to benefit from the 30 hours funding from 9 months Sad

Doesn't help those who are pregnant or currently paying £££££ in childcare NOW.

BernadetteIsMySister · 15/03/2023 13:40

Certainly a vote winner isn't it!

traytablestowed · 15/03/2023 13:43

Desperately trying to avoid a well-deserved kicking at the next election

Kindofthisnotthat · 15/03/2023 13:43

And that of course is all it's about.

BramleyAppleHotCrossBun · 15/03/2023 13:43

lol

It has 'given' my family, and thousands like us, absolutely nothing.

Not everyone has children under 5.

Kindofthisnotthat · 15/03/2023 13:44

No doubt the bribes will work and all will be forgotten.

Summerbreeze111 · 15/03/2023 13:44

StylishM · 15/03/2023 13:40

I agree but I'm slightly dismayed at the delays to the childcare funding - you would have to conceive at Christmas 2024 (21 months away) to benefit from the 30 hours funding from 9 months Sad

Doesn't help those who are pregnant or currently paying £££££ in childcare NOW.

Oh no I am pregnant now and was hoping it would help us when our baby is 1.

When does it kick in?

Do you have a link please?

BramleyAppleHotCrossBun · 15/03/2023 13:44

StylishM · 15/03/2023 13:40

I agree but I'm slightly dismayed at the delays to the childcare funding - you would have to conceive at Christmas 2024 (21 months away) to benefit from the 30 hours funding from 9 months Sad

Doesn't help those who are pregnant or currently paying £££££ in childcare NOW.

Gosh I wonder why they chose that date they will never have to enact this because they won't be in power by then

ShirleyPhallus · 15/03/2023 13:44

30 hours free for 1&2 year olds

for some 1&2 year olds. Higher earners don’t get anything.

therearesomenastypeoplearound · 15/03/2023 13:44

Fullrecoveryispossible · 15/03/2023 13:34

I’ll give it to the chancellor. He delivered a bloody good budget today. Childcare reform (including increasing rates paid to providers by 30%) and 30 hours free for 1&2 year olds. Uk has avoided recession despite a global pandemic and Ukrainian war, more money on occupational health, plan to get more people into work

Don't be taken in by it all.

The country is in a complete mess!

YaWeeFurryBastard · 15/03/2023 13:46

StylishM · 15/03/2023 13:40

I agree but I'm slightly dismayed at the delays to the childcare funding - you would have to conceive at Christmas 2024 (21 months away) to benefit from the 30 hours funding from 9 months Sad

Doesn't help those who are pregnant or currently paying £££££ in childcare NOW.

Where have you got this from? I haven’t seen this reported anywhere. I didn’t think there had been an announcement on when it would be effective yet so please could you provide a source?

StylishM · 15/03/2023 13:47

@Summerbreeze111

30 hour funding confirmed for children aged 9 months & up.

April 2024 - 2 year olds can access 15 hours

September 2024 - 15 hours for all kids from 9 months +

September 2025 - full 30 hours per week for all children over 9 months

So, only children conceived December 2024 onwards will get the full benefit of the 30 hours funding from 9 months. I'm also pregnant and dismayed at the delay of 18 months for under 2s Sad

YetMoreNewBeginnings · 15/03/2023 13:47

I’m amazed more people aren’t seeing the childcare thing for what it will inevitably end up being.

Its a tactic to lower the age people on benefits (women usually) will have full time work requirements or be sanctioned.

Which with the increase in ratios and the problems that nurseries have been talking about is going to lead to either people being sanctioned because they simply can’t find childcare or children ending up in substandard childcare.

There’s always a hidden meaning behind seemingly generous reforms - the bereavement benefit changes show that very clearly.

StylishM · 15/03/2023 13:48

@YaWeeFurryBastard I'm watching the budget live - so I'm literally reporting what's been said in Parliament - I was watching the budget specifically for this reason.

YaWeeFurryBastard · 15/03/2023 13:49

StylishM · 15/03/2023 13:47

@Summerbreeze111

30 hour funding confirmed for children aged 9 months & up.

April 2024 - 2 year olds can access 15 hours

September 2024 - 15 hours for all kids from 9 months +

September 2025 - full 30 hours per week for all children over 9 months

So, only children conceived December 2024 onwards will get the full benefit of the 30 hours funding from 9 months. I'm also pregnant and dismayed at the delay of 18 months for under 2s Sad

What is the source of this information please?

Briallen · 15/03/2023 13:49

BramleyAppleHotCrossBun · 15/03/2023 13:44

Gosh I wonder why they chose that date they will never have to enact this because they won't be in power by then

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stopringingme · 15/03/2023 13:51

BramleyAppleHotCrossBun · 15/03/2023 13:43

lol

It has 'given' my family, and thousands like us, absolutely nothing.

Not everyone has children under 5.

Same, nothing at all for us.

tigger1001 · 15/03/2023 13:52

I thought it was a budget with very little in it

NurseryNurse10 · 15/03/2023 13:52

I'm not. Myself and my colleagues will be expected to look after more kids on little more than minimum wage. Standards will drip even further. The nursery sector will go under.

Summerbreeze111 · 15/03/2023 13:53

StylishM · 15/03/2023 13:47

@Summerbreeze111

30 hour funding confirmed for children aged 9 months & up.

April 2024 - 2 year olds can access 15 hours

September 2024 - 15 hours for all kids from 9 months +

September 2025 - full 30 hours per week for all children over 9 months

So, only children conceived December 2024 onwards will get the full benefit of the 30 hours funding from 9 months. I'm also pregnant and dismayed at the delay of 18 months for under 2s Sad

Thank you for the information, much appreciated!!

Completely new to this, so if our baby would be 6 months old by September 2024, do you know if we can then claim the 15 hour free hours at that point, or have we missed the deadline? So would that be 6 months of full childcare fees and the remaining would be subsidised with the childcare 15 hour help?

katmarie · 15/03/2023 13:53

I'm not that impressed to be honest.

He's passed the buck on a lot of the childcare stuff. By the time it's implemented we will be well past the general election. He can say what he likes now, knowing full well that it will be in Labour's hands to deliver. Anyone who has a child over the age of 1 now will likely get limited benefit from it, although might still suffer the detriment of the relaxed ratios in childcare.

He's found eleven billion pounds extra to plough into defence spending, yet barely a mention of the NHS or schools funding, other than childcare related. Our education and health services are on their knees. Likewise nothing about the courts services, which are also struggling horrendously.

TBH the mentions of stronger sanctions for people on UC and separating benefits entitlement from ability to work also make me very nervous.

YaWeeFurryBastard · 15/03/2023 13:53

StylishM · 15/03/2023 13:48

@YaWeeFurryBastard I'm watching the budget live - so I'm literally reporting what's been said in Parliament - I was watching the budget specifically for this reason.

Sorry cross posted! Thank you for sharing.

Rosula · 15/03/2023 13:54

Any danger of reasonable funding for the education, health, police and justice systems? Or are we still going to have to deal with falling down schools, hospitals, courts and prisons?

katmarie · 15/03/2023 13:55

Rosula · 15/03/2023 13:54

Any danger of reasonable funding for the education, health, police and justice systems? Or are we still going to have to deal with falling down schools, hospitals, courts and prisons?

I think we know the answer to that...