Childcare
The new Childcare Offer, Flying Start, nurseries and childminders, and the early years workforce.
In the Programme for Government this sits under the well-being objective Helping households with the cost of living.
- Statements and debates
- 7
- Contributions
- 1,984
- Written questions
- 79
1,984 contributions in the Sixth Senedd touched on this. The busiest month was Nov 2021, with 190.
- Labour70%
- Plaid14%
- Conservative12%
- Lib Dem4%
- Independent0%
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The debate so far
In the Seventh Senedd, childcare has been debated mainly through Plaid Cymru's pledge of a universal offer. Reform UK used its 10 June debate to demand costings and a timetable, and Labour pressed on funding. The Government has put £55 million into giving all two-year-olds 12.5 hours and gave a £375 million midpoint estimate. Flying Start, the workforce and outcomes data have been recurring concerns.
The main arguments
- Reform UK's Dan Thomas and Helen Jenner argued the Government should publish full costings and a timetable. Welsh Labour's Lynne Neagle cited an Institute for Fiscal Studies estimate of about £400 million a year and asked what would be cut.
