In response to a national shortage of childcare places, practitioners and funding, the children’s commissioner for England has proposed a radical new approach to delivering early years provision.
In her Vision for Childcarereport, Dame Rachel de Souza sets out plans for “opening up schools to provide more early years education” as a solution for the problems faced by private, voluntary and independent (PVI) providers around rising costs which are resulting in higher fees for parents and putting some settings under financial pressure.
“Currently, rent or mortgage payments account for 12 per cent of private providers’ costs, and other costs (including utilities) account for 11 per cent – these are only likely to increase in the short term, and may make many childcare settings unsustainable,” the report states.
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