Corbyn used his speech at the annual Labour Party Conference to set out plans for 30 hours of high-quality, "genuinely" free childcare to be available to all two-, three- and four-year-olds, with no means testing.
Currently 30 hours of free childcare is available to disadvantaged two-year-olds, as well as three- and four-year-olds whose parents are in work and earning within certain limits. There are also concerns that 30 hours provision is not genuinely free because providers are not being funded adequately and are charging parents additional costs to try to make ends meet.
"Patchy support for childcare is holding back too many parents and families," Corbyn said.
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