Motion or amendment: Funding for Childcare - Amendment 1
Motion or amendment by Mr David Brooks on .
- MLA
- Mr David Brooks
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 19 March 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Funding for Childcare”
- Heading
- Funding for Childcare - Amendment 1
- Assembly identifier
- Document 433096
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Funding for Childcare - Amendment 1
Leave out all after ‘Programme for Government’ and insert:
‘welcomes the speed of the roll-out of the Northern Ireland Childcare Subsidy Scheme (NICSS) with an estimated uptake from over 90 per cent of those eligible, over £6.5 million in savings delivered to families to date, and 100 percent of allocated funding on track to be spent by the end of this financial year; notes fears that in some instances rising costs could outweigh potential savings for parents provided by the NICSS; commends, therefore, the decision to increase the maximum subsidy cap per child by 10 per cent from 1 April 2025; accepts that the cost of implementing a comprehensive and ambitious early learning and childcare strategy as called for by the Minister of Education will be significant; and calls on the Minister of Finance to commit to fully fund a multi-year early learning and childcare strategy which provides affordable, quality childcare for parents alongside long-term sustainability for providers.’
164 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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