A Newcastle MP led a debate in Parliament amid Government proposals to cut childcare costs by increasing the number of children childcare workers care for.
Newcastle North MP and Chair of the Petitions Committee, Catherine McKinnell, spoke on behalf of 109,000 petitioners against the Government's plans to change minimum staff-child ratios in England for two-year-olds from 1:4 to 1:5.
The petition, started by Zoe and Lewis Steeper, was launched after the couple's nine-month-old son, Oliver, tragically died after a medical emergency in a nursery.
