In Northern Ireland? Have your say on childcare.

Junior Ministers Michelle McIlveen and Jennifer McCann have launched a consultation on the Northern Ireland Executive’s draft Childcare Strategy.

It is to be a ten-year strategy which aims to develop and deliver affordable, high quality and integrated childcare services which gives children the best start in life, while supporting and enabling parents to participate in the workforce.

It includes proposals to increase the supply of childcare places, from pre-school through school-age, from the present 56,000 to 100,000.