I was back at City Hall on Friday for a roundtable, led by Deputy Mayor for Education and Childcare, Joanne McCartney, to examine how we do more to address London's Childcare Challenge, something I have already written about.
Right now I think London's childcare and education sector is lucky that Mayor Sadiq Khan is taking our work seriously. He has no statutory duties but he is a powerful advocate for us and maybe he can help us get the public to understand just what it is we do. He certainly has embedded the idea that childcare is central to the life of the city. The phrase childcare as part of our infrastructure was very much in evidence.
This is important given the research findings that both the Family and Childcare Trust and IPPR shared at the meeting. None of this was a surprise:
Childcare in London remains unaffordable and that's a huge issue as London is full of the just about managing.
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