Mixed messages have lead to an "understandable reluctance" for private childcare providers to engage in the roll-out of children's centres, Rosemary Murphy, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association, told a Daycare Trust conference on the role of the private sector in delivering the national childcare strategy.
Daycare Trust director Stephen Burke said it was vital the Government presented a clear vision in its 10-year plan, due in the autumn.
Delegates said they were confused by a raft of seemingly conflicting Government initiatives.
Eva Lloyd, senior lecturer in early childhood studies at Bristol University, said the way the Government was rolling out its policy was "not conducive to the private sector delivering its best", and called for a radical overhaul of "piecemeal thinking".
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