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Truss reaffirms plan to change childcare ratios

1 min read Early Years
Plans to relax ratios in childcare settings look set to remain on the government's agenda, despite forthcoming research that is expected to challenge the validity of the idea.

Responding to parliamentary questions about delays to the government’s response to the Childcare Commission, childcare minister Elizabeth Truss reiterated her desire to introduce policies that are based on European models of care.

Truss argued that in countries where the number of children that early years providers can care for is higher, staff are more qualified and better paid.

She said reforms in these areas would provide better value for money, and bring down childcare costs for parents who “pay more than those in virtually any other OECD country”.

But research commissioned by the Department for Education, due to be published shortly, is expected to suggest that altering ratios will do little to reduce childcare costs

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