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Childcare reform could raise costs further after Clegg's attack on ratios

Len Shackleton

7 June 2013

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It is depressing to see education minister Liz Truss’s proposals to relax childcare ratios – which would have allowed nursery staff look after more children – vetoed by Nick Clegg...

Contradictory UK childcare policy won’t halt rising costs for parents

Len Shackleton

10 May 2013

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It may sound incredible given the current political debate, but the UK government now spends more as a percentage of GDP on childcare than all European countries except Denmark. Yet the...

Why does the government keep giving money to people like me?

Len Shackleton

26 March 2013

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The announcement that households with income up to £300,000 will be entitled to financial assistance with childcare under the government’s plans has raised a few eyebrows. But this...

Demand and supply: why the Budget fails on A-level economics

Kristian Niemietz

21 March 2013

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At first sight, the 2013 Budget seems to mean good news for prospective homebuyers and working parents. Under the new Help-to-Buy programme, the government will act as a guarantor for mortgages...

Childcare: how to price the poor out of the market, and then subsidise them back in again

Kristian Niemietz

28 January 2013

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When New Labour came to power, one in five children lived in a household with no adult in work, so it was not unreasonable that parental work levels became a priority for the new government. A key...

Higher spending and new entitlements: coalition policy on early education

Len Shackleton

2 December 2011

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Despite the increasingly worrying position of the public finances, the urge to spend more appears to be hardwired into politicians and can be resisted only with the greatest of exertions. One area...

Childcare conundrums

Len Shackleton

8 September 2011

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The Daycare Trust and Save the Children have published the results of a survey suggesting that almost a quarter of parents with young children have gone into debt to pay for childcare. It...

Means testing means more welfare dependency

Patricia Morgan

5 February 2010

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Shadow Chancellor George Osborne leads the chorus of tut-tutting at means-tested child tax credits going to “better-off” families and seems to believe that we would save enough to bail...

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