Affordable early year's education and childcare potentially enable parents, particularly…

Affordable early year's education and childcare potentially enable parents, particularly mothers, to be in paid employment. International studies have 1 that countries with greater enrolment rates in publicly funded or provided childcare also have higher maternal employment rates, although untangling causal relationships are complex. From the point of view of the household, additional income, especially for the less well-off, is itself associated with better outcomes for children, as child poverty has been 2 to be a key independent determinant of children's outcomes. From the point of view of the public purse, as mothers 3 4 they are likely to claim fewer benefits and to generate extra revenues 5 income tax.