Ep 1. The State of Childcare artwork
The First Three Years

Ep 1. The State of Childcare

  • S1E1
  • 32:12
  • June 7th 2021

The First Three Years’ podcast is a 4-part series exploring the state of early years childcare in the UK today, focusing on those crucial first three years of life. We’ll be looking at the ripple effect that lack of access to childcare has on wider society, the toxic cultural norms we need to dismantle before we can improve the system, and finally, we’ll be casting our minds into the future to ask, what’s next for childcare?


Alex Jones is a journalist investigating the childcare system for The Stack World - despite being one of the biggest drivers of gender inequality, childcare is often overlooked when it comes to the fight for parity. We’re here to change that. 


In episode one, we’ll be learning about the crippling costs of early years, about some of the failings in the system and we’ll be hearing from desperate parents.


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The First Three Years Podcast is presented by Alexandra Jones. It was written by Amy Thomson and Alexandra Jones. The lead producers and editors were Amy Thomson & Nick Thomson. Niall Killeney-Taylor was the executive producer and Sharmadean Reid was Editorial Director. The series has been brought to you by The Stack, production support by Podcast.co. 


https://thestack.world/news/society/campaigns/the-first-three-years-1616506478263

https://thestack.world/news/society/campaigns/the-first-three-years-how-the-system-fails-parents-in-the-uk-1619433749901

First Three Years

The First Three Years’ podcast is a 4-part series exploring the state of early years childcare in the UK today, focusing on those crucial first three years of life and asking the question, why is there no subsidised government support in those years?. We’ll be looking at the ripple effect that lack of access to childcare has on wider society, the toxic cultural norms we need to dismantle before we can improve the system and finally we’ll be casting our minds into the future to ask, what’s next for childcare?

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The First Three Years Podcast is presented by Alexandra Jones. It was written by Amy Thomson and Alexandra Jones. The lead producers and editors were Amy Thomson & Nick Thomson. Niall Killeney-Taylor was the executive producer and Sharmadean Reid was Editorial Director. The series has been brought to you by The Stack, production support by Podcast.co. 

https://thestack.world/news/society/campaigns/the-first-three-years-1616506478263

https://thestack.world/news/society/campaigns/the-first-three-years-how-the-system-fails-parents-in-the-uk-1619433749901