Childcare review could transform life for parents - or not

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The government has announced a review of childcare and child-minding to see how it can be made more affordable and how wrap-around care for school-age children can be improved.

Parents will be holding their breath to see whether the current system - damned as the most expensive in Europe - can be reformed in a way that makes parenthood less financially ruinous.