Lucy Powell Articles

Childcare was politically neglected for generations. But following the transformative work of the last Labour government, shadow minister for childcare and early years Lucy Powell says there is now an arms race in this vital policy area. This arms race was the...

At the next election childcare will be a key battleground issue. I know from my visits to key seats up and down the country how much of a challenge childcare is to parents. It resonates across the political spectrum and across the age range as parents, grandparents...

Universal childcare should be Labour’s ultimate goal —Until relatively recently, childcare was – in the context of political discourse – one of various subheadings under the title ‘women’s issues’, which itself was a short chapter towards the end of the book. That is...

In 1997 Labour’s manifesto contained one, rather vague, sentence about childcare. It would be safe to wager the cost of a year’s childcare (on average, nearly £6,000 for sending a child under two to a nursery for 25 hours a week) that the party’s manifesto next year...