In its manifesto, the association urges the next Government to make a real change for children and families by focusing on three key areas of childcare: choice, cost and quality.
The ‘NDNA Childcare Challenge’ has been published following consultation with nursery owners, managers, practitioners and parents.
Choice for families
The NDNA calls for funding to reach the ‘front line’ in nurseries to enable settings to offer tens of thousands more high quality places for disadvantaged two-year-olds.
According to the association, nurseries have on average 25 per cent extra capacity to offer more childcare than is currently being used.
Cost of childcare
To prevent nurseries having to cover the shortfall of funding for free early education places by pushing up the costs of extra hours, the NDNA urges the next Government to protect early education funding and pay it directly to the parents’ choice of provider, which it says will mean parents pay less.
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