Labor has announced changes to the childcare system if re-elected, which include scrapping the activity test to ensure more children can access childcare.

Georgie Dent, CEO of The Parenthood, told 6PR’s Gary Adshead that we need to stop thinking of it as childcare and instead think of it as early education.

“The evidence is really clear that when children arrive at school behind, they rarely, if ever, catch up,” she said.

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