For anybody who has been following the development of government policy on childcare, or for any regular reader of Children Now, not much in Tony Blair's speech to the Daycare Trust conference will have come as much of a surprise. The broad outline has been around for a while, and it would have been surprising had he not said something about workplace rights for parents. Children's centres were mentioned, too. And childcare will be the core offering of extended schools, whether in the form of breakfast or after-school clubs, sport, music or other activities. The new detail was that councils are to be given a statutory duty to ensure sufficient childcare.
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