Rishi Sunak insisted that easing blocks on childminders looking after children in rental properties will help create “high quality, affordable care for more families”. The prime minister spoke during a visit to a nursery in Harrogate, North Yorkshire we he met families and took part in a painting class with young children. Report by Blairm. 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 My sister and I are 11 months apart.
00:03 Are you 11?
00:04 Which is why, whatever, like 10 years later I had to give in and get a dog.
00:08 So we're doing it in stages over the middle of next year and hopefully it will make a massive difference.
00:13 Yeah, we hope so.
00:14 Yeah, I hear lots of nodding.
00:16 Yeah, it's fantastic.
00:18 Well it's really important to me that young families have access to high quality affordable childcare.
00:23 That's why the government's expanding its offer of free childcare.
00:27 Currently working families can access 30 hours of free childcare for 3 and 4 year olds.
00:32 As part of our big reforms we're extending that all the way down to little ones as young as 9 months.
00:37 So that's going to be hugely helpful for families and we're rolling that out over the next year.
00:42 But also we want to make sure that we have more childminders.
00:45 The number of childminders has declined by half over the past several years.
00:49 We want to reverse that trend so we're making it easier for people to become childminders.
00:53 Making it easier for them to register and making it more likely that housing providers, landlords
00:59 are supportive of people becoming childminders in those properties as well.
01:03 So put all of that together means high quality affordable childcare for more families.
01:08 What? Crazy.
01:09 Right. Don't judge, there we go.
01:12 There we go.
01:13 Wow.
01:14 [Laughter]