Reports out last year again told us that England is the most expensive place in the world to send your child to nursery (see Save the Children and Daycare Trust report September 2011). But there is never a reason given in these articles and reports as to why childcare in the UK is so expensive.
I only wish that some of these report writers would spend as much time researching the reasons why it is as so expensive as they do on researching that it is! After talking to a number of learned colleagues many put forward the view that we in the UK, and particularly England, have more regulatory controls and demands than most other similar countries. And it is these controls and demands that place such a heavy burden on providers that just to comply with these regulations make our services so costly.
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