A damning briefing issued by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister today states that increasing child-to-staff ratios would “not result in lower childcare costs”, would “undermine the quality of care and learning” in early education, and could “put children at risk”.
The document also states that providers would not take up the changes – “because parents don’t want them”.
It also highlights the extent to which the issue has split the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition - a section titled “myth busting” refutes many of the arguments put forward by the chief advocate for the policy, Conservative childcare minister Elizabeth Truss.
Top of the list was the government’s claim that other countries have higher ratios than those in England.
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