The Sure Start website lists the names of 48 IiC schemes, including those run by local authorities, early years partnerships and early years and childcare organisations.
However, the Childcare Bill consultation questions whether IiC schemes are 'the most effective use of resources'.
A spokesperson for the Yorkshire and Humberside Quality Co-ordinators'
Group said,'We feel angry that quality appears to be slipping down the DfES agenda. The group feels that the Childcare Bill consultation appears to contradict the ringing endorsement of QA expressed by the DfES only last month in the consultation on the Draft Code of Practice on the Provision of Free Nursery Education Places for three and four-year-olds.'
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