Commitments to free childcare is a 'big job'

AN education minister has warned it will be 'an enormously big job' for the Government to meet its commitments on free childcare.

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From Monday, the Government will fund 15 hours per week of free childcare for eligible working parents whose children are between nine months and two years old, in addition to an existing offer to parents of two-year-olds and 30 hours of free childcare already offered to parents of children aged three and four.

From September 2025, the Department for Education has committed to funding 30 hours of free childcare for most working parents of children between nine months and school age, in line with commitments made by the former Conservative government.