Jeremy Hunt has defended the speed of the rollout of his Budget offer of free childcare for working parents with children under the age of five.
The policy, announced in Wednesday's budget (March 15), will not be rolled out in full until September 2025. Mr Hunt said it could save families around £6,500 a year on childcare.
He told Sky New on Thursday morning (March 16): “This is the biggest transformation in childcare in my lifetime. It is a huge change and we are going to need thousands more nurseries, thousands more schools offering provision they don’t currently offer, thousands more childminders.
