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Evening Standard
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Jessica Coates

‘Generational shift’ in free childcare will give women freedom, says Phillipson

Women will be given added “freedom” to have more children by expanded government-funded childcare, the Education Secretary has said.

Starting Monday, working parents of children who turn nine months old before September 1 can apply to access up to 30 hours of free childcare per week, until their child is old enough to start school.

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