Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson has promised 3,000 new nurseries and 100,000 new places for children if Labour come into government. The plan sets out that classrooms that have been left empty because of falling birth rates will be converted so they can be used, with conversions being funded by revenue raised from ending tax breaks for private schools. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 It's £140 million that would give us the 3,000 new nurseries, 100,000 new childcare
00:05 places. I'm determined to deliver on the commitments that have been made and make sure parents
00:10 can access childcare and early years support.
00:12 What we've seen here today is that there is a provision for three and four year olds.
00:15 The school have told me they would like the opportunity to expand it to two.
00:18 You're saying 3,000 new nurseries?
00:19 Yes.
00:20 And you're also saying that some of them already exist? So they can't be new if they already
00:22 exist?
00:23 Because it's on delivering on the commitments that have been made to parents. So it would
00:27 be a new provision if the school were to...
00:29 New nurseries?
00:30 Well, in many cases it will be brand new, but in other cases it will be the expansion
00:34 of classes or the expansion of the age range that is available. But it's 100,000 places.
00:38 That is an awful lot of places and would make an enormous difference to families. It would
00:43 lead to 750,000 women being able to take on more hours. It would have an economic impact
00:47 as well as the life chances that we deliver for children.