Within its submission to the Treasury, the CBI, a membership organisation which supports 190,000 businesses, calls for additional investment and reform to childcare and early years support to create an ‘accessible and affordable system’, helping people to remain, return and progress in employment.
It says this should include:
The CBI estimates the annual cost of the above three measures to be £8.9bn.
Other measures it recommends are to launch a two-year pilot of turning the Apprenticeship Levy into a ‘Skills Challenge Fund’, allowing firms to spend the fund on a variety of accredited training and skills, and expanding the scope of health support as a non-taxable benefit in kind to muscoskeletal conditions, mental health and ergonomics.
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