Free 15 hours of childcare expands to two-year-olds as Rishi Sunak insists he is delivering on pledge

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Rishi Sunak has insisted he is delivering on his childcare plan as the first parents in England begin to benefit from 15 hours of taxpayer-funded care.

The PM said the plan would "build a brighter future for families and help to grow our economy", but Labour has said that families will struggle to access places.The policy, which came into effect on Monday, is the first phase of a plan to expand funded childcare for working parents.Officials said the number of parents taking up places will initially be in the "thousands" but that is expected to grow by "tens of thousands" in the coming weeks.

"Now, of course, you’ll get some teething troubles but this is a demand led system and we're already delivering this for more than a million working families.She added: "You’ll always find one parent that hasn’t got the place they want – that’s fair enough – but when you’ve got millions of families and 150,000 this week who are getting access to places, in the big picture, we’re aware that sufficiency of places is highly important.

 

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