The NHS childcare strategy is facing an uncertain future, according to a report produced for the Department of Health, despite its proven benefits to NHS staff over the past four years.
The report, NHS childcare strategy impact analysis, produced for the NHS by the Daycare Trust, said there was 'some uncertainty and concern' about the strategy's future after this April, when new arrangements will see childcare funded out of local NHS Primary Care Trust budgets. It warned that there was 'a real danger that with the switch to the new funding regime, the NHS childcare strategy will lose much of its momentum'.
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