Labour commits to keeping Tories' free childcare expansion plans

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In a letter to Gillian Keegan on Tuesday, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson described the suggestion that Labour would not stick to the free scheme as 'an outright lie'.

Labour has committed to keeping the government's free child expansion if it wins the general election - describing the Tories' suggestion otherwise as an 'outright lie'. In a letter to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, shadow minister Bridget Phillipson said her party 'will not be removing any entitlements offered to families now or those promised to them in the future'.

This will be extended to working parents of all children older than nine months from September this year, before the full rollout of 30 hours a week to all eligible families a year later. Ms Phillipson told the BBC's Newsnight programme at the end of March that Labour would not commit to the £4bn plan, after commissioning a review of childcare led by former senior Ofsted figure Sir David Bell last October.

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