The minister's comments follow a visit to Sweden, where high levels of childcare investment partly came about as a result of mothers taking to the streets with prams. She was speaking at a conference on children's centres organised by the Daycare Trust and the National Council for Voluntary Child Care Organisations.
In her speech, Hodge claimed she had been vindicated in her vision for a children's centre in every community, winning over both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor.
"When I first said it, I was told off by the Treasury for saying it, now I'm glad that it's a feature of speeches both by the Chancellor and the Prime Minister, and everybody else," she told delegates at the conference.
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