Childcare Entitlements

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 1:38 pm ar 23 Ebrill 2024.

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Photo of Andrew Gwynne Andrew Gwynne Shadow Minister (Social Care) 1:38, 23 Ebrill 2024

I will start on a consensual point: it is not a bad thing that the Government want to extend early years childcare provision. We all want to see that and we want it to work. In answer to my hon. Friend Sarah Owen, the Minister said, however, that not a single local authority is telling him that there are not sufficient places, yet Coram says that 35% of local authorities—a decrease of 29% since last year—reported that there was sufficient childcare for children under two. Both statements cannot be correct, so why does Coram think that in some local authorities there are insufficient places?