I have served as a primary school governor, and had I been told that on top of the onerous existing duties of a governor (meetings galore, mountains of documents to read, huge liabilities and responsibilities piled on by Government) and working full-time while bringing up a child, I was expected to run, say, a nursery, a creche and a health clinic, I would have run a mile. Volunteer governors cannot just take this on without proper support.
Then there is regulation, with schools currently exempt from daycare standards and care inspections. Many schools would struggle to provide facilities suitable for babies and toddlers and should certainly have to meet the same standards as other daycare settings.
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