The government is costing up a proposal to offer teachers and social care workers more financial childcare support, schools minister Jonathan Gullis has revealed.
But it is not clear how any potential scheme will differ from the government’s current offer of 30 hours a week of free childcare for families in all professions.
Speaking at an Education Policy Institute fringe at the Conservative Party conference, Gullis said improving teacher recruitment and retention was one of his top priorities in the role.
“Could we look at how we could fund potentially, let’s say 30 hours of funded childcare for someone whose household’s got a teacher in it, or children’s social care worker, whether that’s one to four or three to four [years old], if you could do 30 hours on that?
