Labour Party proposals would send British childcare expenditure levels to the highest in the world

Cost-effective childcare is vitally important. Given Britain’s high proportion of children in single-parent households, and given the notoriously low work levels among single parents, cutting child poverty will not be possible without affordable child care. However, if Ed Balls’ proposal was implemented, British childcare spending would soar ahead of even Swedish levels. Pumping even more resources into such an inefficient machinery is surely not the answer.

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Source: http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/labour-party-proposals-would-send-british-childcare-expenditure-levels-to-the-highest-in-the-wo

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