After seeing and hearing the news items of the findings of the Daycare Trusts Report on Childcare costs and the BBC Panorama Programme on the high cost of childcare in the UK, I wondered why no one was asking the question as to the causes of it being so expensive. As an owner of a daycare nursery I will try and shed a little light on to why childcare costs have gone up so much, not just this year but over the past 10 years. The main reason is that it is no longer ‘childcare' it is ‘early years education'.
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