The total numbers of providers, places and children attending childcare and early years provision all continued on their upward trend in 2007, according to the Government's latest providers' survey. But loss-making settings, and problems in delivering the extended free entitlement, still threaten the long-term success of the Government strategy. The oint chief executive of Daycare Trust, Alison Garnham, says, 'Issues of quality and sustainability leap out from these figures, showing a high...