‘What early years workers need is decent terms and conditions, and what families need is inclusive, accessible, high quality early years education and care, not more empty gestures from Government ministers,’ the Post Pandemic Childcare coalition states in an open letter to ministers, which has been signed by 17 MPs.
The coalition claim that successive Governments have ‘failed women’ who it says undertake the majority of unpaid or underpaid childcare work. It says that, ‘right now [women] are once again shouldering the burden of a public health crisis and papering the gaps created by the lack of a coherent early years policy.’
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