This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Introduce 30hours free childcare to all of the UK including Northern Ireland
Benefit working families across all of the UK including Northern Ireland to be entitled to 30 hours free childcare across 38 weeks as per already in England. Many families are unable to work due to childcare cost and are often in poverty due to this.
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Other parts of the UK are not benefiting from these opportunities. Only parliament or government can introduce this, a local MLA can't. Families being able to work keeps employment up, allows families to remain out of poverty and reduce benefit claims. It benefits not just the public but also the government.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
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Decisions about free childcare in Northern Ireland are a matter for Northern Ireland Assembly and Northern Ireland Executive, not the UK Government or Parliament.
If you want to raise this issue you could contact your MLA, or raise it with the relevant Northern Ireland department.
You can find contact details for your MLAs here: http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/your-mlas/
You can find contact details for the departments of the Northern Ireland Executive here: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/government-departments-in-northern-ireland
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