Supporting working parents and their children contributes to individual and societal wellbeing and circular sustainable economics.

Childcare is expensive and is a barrier to parents, traditionally women, returning to work.

• Reason supports free childcare: 
  • free childcare boosts the economy by up to 50 million
  • free childcare boosts women’s participation in the workforce.
• Reason supports free early childhood education 
• Reason supports free early childhood education, and that this needs to be culturally appropriate, and meet diverse needs.
• Reason supports the extension of early childhood education to cover two years in line with other OECD countries.