Its report found that 82 per cent of parents are unable to access early years support.
This has been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic due to the forced closure of children’s centres and the moving of some services online. Some 27 per cent of parents said services were completely unavailable to them at the height of the health crisis.
The lack of access also comes amid a major fall in the number of children’s centres over the last decade. Between 2010 and 2020 the number dropped by a third.
Among families unable to access childcare, 78 per cent are worried about the situation’s impact on themselves or their children.
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