The charity believes that by government meeting 85 per cent of childcare costs for working parents on tax credit and universal credit disadvantaged families and children would be lifted out of poverty.
The measure is included in a new report that also calls on the government to provide a universal guarantee of wraparound care for four- to 14-year-olds between 8am and 6pm.
The Childcare Guarantee report – published as part of the charity's Making Britain Great manifesto – also recommends the creation of new childcare hubs to co-ordinate childcare, and urges the government to build on its free childcare policy by upping the weekly entitlement from 15 to 25 hours for all two- to four-year-olds.
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