She said that the current model “fails everyone, denying parents the ability to work the jobs they’d like, to give their children the opportunities they’d like and is not of the quality that staff want to provide”.
This needs to be a complete overhaul of the system as “tweaking the system we have will not deliver the ambition or scale of reform we are going to need”.
“Labour’s missions must be central to breaking down the barriers to opportunity in this country,” she added, in a speech this week to the centre-right think tank Onward.
Rising cost for families of early years places is a driver for Phillipson’s policy announcement.
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