Discrimination challenge brought against free childcare policy in high court

 
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The Government's free childcare policy is being challenged in the High Court by lone parents and their children, who say they are discriminated against.
Free childcare provision for three and four-year-olds whose parents are "deemed to be in work" was doubled from 15 to 30 hours from last year.
But in a legal action brought by three single mothers and their young children, it is argued the new rules discriminate against lone parents who are carers and those who have fled domesti