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<p>The government has taken significant steps to raise the living standards of low-income
and single-unit families. This includes raising the minimum wage, raising the personal
tax allowance and improving financial incentives to work.</p><p>To support parents
into work, the government spends £6 billion on childcare each year:</p><ul><li>Doubling
free childcare to 30 hours a week for nearly 400,000 working parents of 3 and 4-year
olds.</li><li>Introducing tax-free childcare, worth up to £2,000 per child per year.</li><li>With
Universal Credit, parents can claim up to 85% of their childcare costs back compared
to 70% on the legacy benefit system.</li></ul><p>We recently announced £9 million
of funding for the 2019 summer holidays where we will be exploring how the local coordination
of the provision of nutritious food and enriching and healthy activities can help
more disadvantaged pupils to access free high quality holiday club provision during
the school holidays in 11 areas across the country.</p>
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