With the Government’s expanded childcare scheme spinning into ‘chaos’, just months ahead of the roll-out of the first phase, early years providers have been warned that signing up to offer the places would be ‘financial suicide’.
The policy, which is due to be phased in from April, has been subject to criticism since it was first announced last April by the Chancellor, with sector organisations warning the expansion will be ‘just a pipe dream’ and it will ‘fail before it gets going’ without further Government action. Doubts were also raised over the short amount of time to prepare for the expansion through building the workforce and capacity.
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