Debate contribution: Childcare Sector: Support
Debate contribution by Dr Caoimhe Archibald on .
- MLA
- Dr Caoimhe Archibald
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 24 February 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Childcare Sector: Support
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4813644
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The Member has heard me say repeatedly to other Members that childcare is a priority for the Executive. This financial year, 2024-25, we were able to ring-fence that £25 million, and the Minister of Education brought forward proposals that were supported by the Executive. I have outlined actions undertaken by my Department. In the incoming financial year, 2025-26, the draft Budget sets aside £50 million for childcare, so we will build on the work that has been done in this year and, hopefully, be in a position to support more parents and more childcare providers. We will collectively look at those proposals as they come to us. The research that has been undertaken by my Department will help inform them.
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