Government agrees to preserve system open for six more months after pressure from LabourLabour has pushed the government into agreeing to a six-month extension of the workplace childcare voucher system after using a parliamentary procedure to force a vote on a series of changes that ministers had hoped to build in place by directive.
However,as expected, the government won a vote on a parallel opposition motion that would have halted the imposition of an earnings threshold for free school meals.
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Source: guardian.co.uk