Speaking today at the Pre-school Learning Alliance annual conference in Birmingham, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne said Labour’s future policy focus would be to reduce unemployment by increasing childcare availability.
“We need a childcare revolution in this country. You should be leading the charge and we should be getting behind you,” said Byrne to the audience of early years practitioners.
Byrne said the party was looking at childcare models from abroad, including in Denmark and Quebec, Canada.
“In Denmark they have high quality services, respect for staff, ratios that make sense and a lot more provision,” he said.
“We want to turn these ideas into policy over the next two years.”
He added that 10 per cent more women are in work in Denmark than in the UK.
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