When will the conservatives implement the 30 free hours childcare promised

[milkyman]

aibu to think it wont happen?

By giving 30hrs childcare, it will allow you to work more hours & earn more money than benefits will pay ....

I don't get the mentality that living off benefits is what you would want to do?

It is irrelevant, they can't deliver it to most parents.

Is it childcare or early years education?

The current setup is the latter, which, IMHO doesn't do enough to help working families.

and what about the children, which is better for them?

If was originally billed as childcare but became early years education.

tbh its all a matter of spin at a political level and doesn't matter much.

(I'm sure it matters to early years practitioners who do a great job)

Depressing to see that some people still think our fee is our take home pay

Term time only feels like a poor gesture regardless and surely is only really truly beneficial to patents working in the education sector who also work term time only too.

I doubt it will ever happen. Certainly not in any way that helps working parents.

Won't happen unless nurseries are properly funded. Cannot see nurseries accepting this, FEEE is massively underfunded.

BBC just said this will come in during the first 100 days.

For working parents. Aha that's how they are going to free space - cut funding for those with a parent at home.

Children Come Last, in other words

Cherry can you post a link?

No I've been searching. It was on the BBC news on BBC2 when the newscaster was talking about Pritti Patel.

So if it's biased for two working parents it should be term time too right ?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11596525/The-reshuffle-who-is-in-the-Cabinet.html

Mention of it here

Not sure if I'm allowed to do this, but I'm a regular and have changed my name to avoid being outed. I wrote a fairly ranty blog about this topic before the election - if anyone wants to read it, it's here...

kerrybarrettwriter.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/why-is-no-one-asking-parents-about-childcare/

What I didn't say in my blog, is that I fail to see why only parents of 3 and 4 year olds deserve help with childcare? Seems both completely arbitrary, limiting and completely ill-thought-out to me.

And here. So 2017. After my youngest goes to school....
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11563550/David-Cameron-My-plan-for-the-Tories-first-100-days-in-power.html

That's great news though - I can afford a baby after all :)

KBWriter, your blog is interesting, but makes a few errors.

Childcare and education are not separate in the Early Years. Anyone who thinks so should try not educating a toddler - and good luck with that

We all follow the Early Years curriculum: preschool, nursery, childminder, even some nannies. All of us.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11563550/David-Cameron-My-plan-for-the-Tories-first-100-days-in-power.html

This was released with lots of other promises before the election.

That doesn't mean it will actually happen!