How to fix our broken childcare system: as well as more cash, local councils are key
Research shows fixing our broken childcare system requires a stronger role for local authorities, say Ivana La Valle and Eva Lloyd, University of East London
The Covid-19 pandemic was clearly a catastrophe for most of the world, but it provided a rare ‘natural experiment’ conclusively showing the impact of withdrawing education services to children. In 2020-21, with funding from the Nuffield Foundation, we carried out extensive research with parents of 0-4-year-olds, early years settings, local authorities and other stakeholders in England to explore what happened when early education and childcare services were severely disrupted by the pandemic.
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