{"id":66712,"date":"2024-10-11T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=66712"},"modified":"2024-10-11T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T19:50:45","slug":"you-cant-get-much-for-5-50-nowadays-a-takeaway-coffee-and-a-muffin-maybe-a-pint-and-a-packet-of-crisps-outside-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/11\/you-cant-get-much-for-5-50-nowadays-a-takeaway-coffee-and-a-muffin-maybe-a-pint-and-a-packet-of-crisps-outside-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada is showing that it\u2019s possible to have universal, affordable childcare. Is the UK brave enough to follow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65515\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Nursery-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Nursery-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Nursery-360x216.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Nursery.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">Y<\/span>ou can\u2019t get much for \u00a35.50 nowadays. A takeaway coffee and a muffin, maybe; a pint and a packet of crisps, outside London.\u00a0 But in parts of Canada, roughly that amount can buy you a day\u2019s childcare. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/canada-is-showing-that-it-s-possible-to-have-universal-affordable-childcare-is-the-uk-brave-enough-to-follow\/ar-AA1s5SVR?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=fd5abd62c2b74023b95f971d31f9e4c2&amp;ei=79\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>You can\u2019t get much for \u00a35.50 nowadays. A takeaway coffee and a muffin, maybe; a pint and a packet of crisps, outside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/reception-class.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66719,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66712\/revisions\/66719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}