Nursery World - Matt Buttery: How Government can go further to support families post-Budget

The chief executive of Triple P UK and Ireland and honorary associate professor at the University of Warwick responds to the Chancellor's Budget and the measures still needed to help families.

In the early weeks of his premiership, Rishi Sunak pledged to build a society that values families. As reported in Nursery World, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget pledged an additional £500m to childcare providers, but it offered little else by way of additional funding for family support.

The coming months will be make or break as to whether Sunak can meet his early commitments. Recent years have been tumultuous for parents and children. Both have faced the disruption the pandemic caused to normal life, exacerbated more recently by the impact of the cost-of-living crisis.

Attention now turns to manifestos ahead of the upcoming election, so what should the Government do to go further to support families?

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