Why is childcare so expensive?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Leah Boleto is joined by MP Stella Creasy and Pregnant then Screwed founder Joeli Brearley to explore the issues parents face when accessing childcare.
Plus, Peter Moss, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education at University College London explains why it’s so expensive when compared to other countries in Europe and Scandinavia.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews producer: Tamara Bungaroo Valdes
Podcast promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editors: Philly Beaumont and Paul Stanworth
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| 1:03.9 | Hi, I'm Leah Belletto, in for Neil Patterson. |
| 1:07.6 | When I was six months pregnant with my first child, someone told me to start saving for childcare, |
| 1:13.4 | and I didn't really know what they meant at the time, but six years on, and now with two children, |
| 1:18.4 | oh goodness, I absolutely do. So the UK has the second most expensive childcare system in the world, |
| 1:24.7 | and that's according to international research which looked at the percentage |
| 1:29.2 | of a family's income spent on childcare. All three and four-year-old children across the UK get |
| 1:37.1 | a minimum of 15 hours of free childcare per week. And there's more free provision, of course, |
| 1:43.3 | for those most in need. But politicians, |
| 1:46.1 | on all sides, no, there's still a problem. |
| 1:49.1 | Child care is important to this government. I met with the... There's Education Secretary, |
| 1:52.4 | Gillian Keegan. We do have a £1.2 million childcare choices campaign to increase the usage of |
| 1:59.4 | those. But we will go further, and we are looking at all options to improve the affordability and |
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