Councillor Vince Maple wrote a joint letter with Councillor Clive Johnson to Claire Coutinho, minister for children, families and wellbeing. The letter was written prior to the local elections when Maple was leader of Medway Labour and Co-operative.
Yesterday (5 May), Labour won the local election in Medway, taking over control of the council from the Conservatives.
In the letter, the councillors state, ‘there should be no danger of a compromise between the financial and operational imperatives’ of those who set up childcare settings.
‘The caring, educational and safeguarding issues are too important to be compromised by owners whose overriding concern may become the pursuit or securing of profit.'
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