20 free hours backfires

Labour’s election pledge of 20 free hours of childcare has been slowly but steadily blowing up in their face. It has been a series of retreats and then a miniscule uptake. The latest fiasco is that even the care centre where Helen made the anouncement in 2005 “is getting cold feet about the scheme”.

The Early Childhood Council remarks:

“Parents are going to be absolutely furious to find, after being promised a reduction [in childcare fees] of $90 a week, that they are not going to get it,”