Philip Blackburn, senior economist at research firm Laing & Buisson, said a recent survey of the childcare market showed extended schools were not providing the childcare they had been expected to. "There doesn't seem to be as many extended schools in operation as initially predicted," he told delegates at Laing & Buisson's annual children's nurseries conference last week.
"Schools have not embraced the initiative like many expected. There's huge scope for childcare provision but I don't think schools have appropriate resources to offer childcare."
Blackburn added: "Whether there will be a change in government directives to enforce schools provision, I don't know, but at the moment we're not seeing the explosion in provision that we thought we would."
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