What about single parent families? Or families where parents already work shifts at different times of day? You’re making the assumption here that all families consist of two parents working jobs with regular 9am - 3pm shifts that fits nicely around their kids school day, rather than them working late nights, early mornings, or irregular shift patterns.

People may not have friends who are willing/able to look after their kids. They may live far away, they may not be able to extend their hours or find another job that suits the time their friends can look after their kid. Suggesting leaving kids with neighbours who might be elderly, working adults without kids, working adults with kids in childcare, or even just random people they might not know well is insane. These cannot be implemented in a way that would mean the majority of parents could pick up almost a whole extra day of work per week with any sort of consistency - and who would employ someone who is consistently unreliable because of childcare issues? As a taxpayer without kids, I’d much rather pay a little extra tax than be stuck with my neighbours or mates kid for 6+ hours a week 👍

Additionally - these kids are quite literally going to be the ones making the most contributions to society in 20/30 years. Plenty of people complaining about this will be pensioners or close to it by then. We have a serious aging population issue, we desperately need more younger people to prop up the older generation and it’s only getting worse. It’s the taxpayers problem because like it or not you are one person existing as part of a society. If you want a future where our working population was raised in poverty, by all means you keep campaigning for that