This week marks a year since the government published its updated childcare strategy, Next Steps for Early Learning and Childcare. The document stated that local authorities were not meeting their statutory duties to provide sufficient childcare for fiveto 14-year-olds.
Every local authority should have started working on childcare sufficiency action plans, with particular focus on fiveto 14-year-olds, in November 2009.
But Anne Longfield, chief executive of charity 4Children, said: "There is a worrying amount of areas where action plans are not being developed." She added that draft guidance on sufficiency assessments, issued last month, focused too heavily on early years provision.
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