Former cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom has described the current government policy of only offering free childcare to children under two to parents in “extreme deprivation” is "crazy"
Leadsom told PoliticsHome’s The Rundown podcast that free childcare should be made “flexible for the needs of parents” and called on MPs to work cross-party to reform the sector.
Under current rules, all children in England are entitled to 30 hours a week free childcare from the age of three.
Free childcare is available to children from the age of two, if their parents are in receipt of certain benefits, or if they are looked after by a local authority.
