Minister Foley publishes results from Ipsos B&A poll showing improvement in childcare affordability
49% of parents of pre-school age children and 53% of parents of school-going children in non-parental care report that they find it easy or fairly easy to pay for childcare.•This latest data compares favourably with data from 2023 when 28% of parents of pre-school age children and 43% of parents of school-going children in non-parental care reported that they found it easy or fairly easy to pay for childcare.•Three quarters of parents in receipt of childcare subsidies from the State report that they find the subsidies easy to access.•85% of parents of pre-school children and 83% of school-going children report using their preferred childcare arrangement.•95% of parents of pre-school children and 93% of parents of school-going children report to be satisfied with their current childcare arrangements.
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