Bridget Phillipson responds to the IFS finding that funding for early years is likely to fall by 8% up to 2024

Bridget Phillipson MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responding to new findings from the IFS that funding for early years is likely to fall by 8% up to 2024, said:

“The IFS’s findings simply reinforce the need for the new, modern childcare system that Labour will build in Government.

“The falling value of childcare support means parents will face even higher bills or more nursery closure, all because the Conservatives crashed the economy.

“Labour will offer breakfast clubs for every primary school child in England and enable councils to open new maintained nurseries, as the first step on the road to a new modern childcare system.”