One of the many reasons Ed Balls gives for this promise policy is allowing parents, both couples and singles, to go out and be able to work without having to worry about looking after their children.
Labour has already promised all parents of primary school children will be able to get "wraparound" childcare - meaning children can be left at school from 8am to 6pm - if it wins the 2015 election.
Labour aims to raise the bank levy rate to £800 million which will help fund the extra hours. The idea was to raise more than £8bn for the Treasury over four years, and Mr Osborne it was "fair and right" that banks should contribute to the economic recovery given that the financial crisis began in banking.
Labour's policy pledge comes shortly after the government announced that all pupils at infant schools in England will get free school lunches from next September.
I agree that making a policy for extra free childcare hours for parents is brilliant, but actually thinking about how long children will be required to stay in school, the extra hours teachers will have to put in and the less time parents will see their children (perhaps just only 2 hours during the weekdays).......it may not be as good as an idea as I had thought previously.
Also, no doubt the taxpayers will be the ones to mostly fund the extra hours but its mostly certainly not fair for hard working people to fund children whose parents may potentially be millionaires I understand that if their parents were actually millionaires then they would most certainly put their children into a private school whereby they also pay for a child minder However, seeing this promised policy from Labour and a way to save money, they may opted for this route. Now that would not be fair. If Labour wins the next election and this promise is actually made into a policy then there definitely needs to be a way in order to assess which families are deemed worthy and in need for this kind of help.
Conversely, there is also the issue with taxpayers. Of course if this pledged promise from Labour actually makes policy if they are elected in 2015 then there is going to be a lot of backlash from taxpayers and how unfair they think this is. We do also need to remember the fact that we were all young once and having FREE childcare might have benefited us and our working family greatly.
Also, no doubt the taxpayers will be the ones to mostly fund the extra hours but its mostly certainly not fair for hard working people to fund children whose parents may potentially be millionaires I understand that if their parents were actually millionaires then they would most certainly put their children into a private school whereby they also pay for a child minder However, seeing this promised policy from Labour and a way to save money, they may opted for this route. Now that would not be fair. If Labour wins the next election and this promise is actually made into a policy then there definitely needs to be a way in order to assess which families are deemed worthy and in need for this kind of help.
Conversely, there is also the issue with taxpayers. Of course if this pledged promise from Labour actually makes policy if they are elected in 2015 then there is going to be a lot of backlash from taxpayers and how unfair they think this is. We do also need to remember the fact that we were all young once and having FREE childcare might have benefited us and our working family greatly.
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