Tory policy is a nursery crime.

Labour will fix our broken childcare system, with new nurseries across Cambridgeshire

Labour will deliver 100,000 new nursery places by creating 3,300 new nurseries to make childcare available to families so that they can access the hours they have been promised. This could mean approximately 70 new nurseries across Cambridgeshire.

The existing childcare system is expensive and underfunded, and many parents are forced to drop out of work to look after their children.

Under Labour’s plan, spare classrooms in existing local primary schools will be converted to accommodate extra childcare places. Labour will pay for this by ending private schools’ tax breaks.

Elizabeth McWilliams, Labour's candidate for Ely and East Cambridgeshire said:

“For families across Cambridgeshire, access to decent, affordable childcare is a necessity - especially when it comes to giving women the opportunity to return to work after maternity leave. A broken childcare system hurts families and it hurts women.

“The government's previous expansion of nursery funding is a sticking-plaster solution, pumping money into a system that is already struggling to cope with demand. Many local nurseries in Cambridgeshire have already said they don’t have the capacity to deliver the extra spaces needed under the government's plan.

“The Tories’ promise of more funded childcare hours is meaningless if parents cannot access the new nursery places. Labour’s plan will address this capacity issue directly - by setting up new nurseries and giving families the places they need.”