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With Brexit fast approaching, and no clear idea of what will happen next, the childcare sector, along with the wider economy, is in limbo.
This uncertainty and inability to plan has generated increasing headlines for months as businesses grow increasingly vocal about their frustration, with reports that as many as one in three British companies will move operations abroad if there is a ‘hard Brexit’.
In the childcare sector, Jennie Johnson, owner of Kids Allowed, says, ‘I refuse to plan for something I can’t plan for.’ Tony Driffield of Mama Bears says it’s difficult to make contingencies ‘when you don’t know what will happen’.
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