Lone parent Samia El Ouali was keen to start a career but she struggled to find affordable childcare for her 18-month-old daughter Keenayah while she was studying. "I was desperate because I wanted to get into training," she says. However, she eventually spotted an advert for a subsidised childcare scheme from The Learning Trust, which runs education services in Hackney. The scheme promised to pay for a nursery place while...