Children and families living in areas already experiencing relative deprivation face further inequity because they have less access to high-quality provision.' Given that the Government's ten-year childcare strategy placed a major emphasis on developing good-quality care in these areas to enable parents to find work or training, this assessment in the recent Ofsted review appears damning.
The report found that only 53 per cent of childminders in deprived areas provide 'good or better' childcare, compared with 60 per cent in the rest of the country, while the figures for daycare providers are 54 per cent in disadvantaged areas and 63 per cent elsewhere.
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