Following their recent success at ensuring a free Universal Health Visitor Service, to support families as their children grow up, be set up under a Liberal Democrat Government, Aylesbury Lib Dems are now calling for free childcare for every family and are supporting an online petition set up by Lib Dem MP Susan Kramer.

Steven Lambert the Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate for Aylesbury said “life is a real struggle for parents. The Government has not made things easy and the Tories look set to make things worse if they win the General Election. Parents who need to go back to work must be properly supported. Parents should be entitled to 20 hours of free, high quality childcare for each child from the age of 18 months to when they start school. Successive Labour and Tory governments have failed our families. It’s time to change this once and for all.”

Lib Dem County Councillor Jenny Puddefoot, said “the campaign for free high quality child care is very much linked to the Lib Dem plans for a Universal Health Visitor Service which will see help and advice given to all families by a qualified professional Health Visitor from when a baby is born to the age of five. It’s been proven beyond doubt that the more you invest in a child in their early, the better life chances that a child will have.”

The petition can be found at http://www.libdems.org.uk/our_campaigns_detail.aspx?title=Petition%3a_Free_Childcare_for_Every_Family&pPK=eef38f95-16e5-4add-b1aa-962d4ea3a0f5