YES: Purnima Tanuku, chief executive, National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)
The Department for Education has announced that all schools' childcare options are to be listed alongside performance tables.
This move is puzzling to NDNA and many other people in the sector.
At the time, the then childcare minister Sam Gyimah said he wants parents to be able to see what's available from schools - including full-time nursery, holiday and after-school provision.
But such listings would only show a small proportion of all the childcare options available to them.
And it would put schools at an unfair advantage against other providers, by being more visible and somehow more "official".
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