Paul Hosford: What will it take to put childcare front and centre in the national conversation?

For 20% of families, fees have not only not gone down, they have gone up in the months following an election in which the prohibitive cost of childcare was a key factor

Having been such an important part of the election campaign, it is strange that childcare hasn’t received the same level of political attention as, say, energy prices or other cost-of-living issues.

Remember the general election?

It was only nine months ago, but it seems to have been consigned to the collective dust bin of time by much of the country.