The government’s policy document More Great Childcare has many excellent ideas, particularly on improving staff qualifications and salary levels.
But I fear any potential savings changes in adult-to-child ratios will be swallowed up in the higher rates of pay better-qualified staff will require and if there were any additional financial savings they will have little or no impact on childcare costs and the fees nursery have to charge.
The restrictive regulations talked about in More Great Childcare are not the major cause of increased childcare costs or poor staff pay rates.
It is the low level of funding the government provides to pay for the free hours of early years education.
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