Quick Guide: Families
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Maternity leave

Childcare

Child tax credits

Child poverty

Welfare reform

Inequality

Childcare
After-school places have expanded fastest.

Labour has pledged to increase the number of childcare places and give a larger subsidy to less well-off families to help pay for them.

It also pledges to increase after- school care and nursery places.

Many families still use informal carers, like grandparents, because they cannot afford formal child care.

The Conservatives want a £50 per week tax credit which could be paid to any carer, while Lib Dems want more early care centres.