Around nine in 10 of the nursery and pre-school respondents to the online survey oppose Government plans to relax childcare ratios.
If the Government does relax early years ratios, just 13 per cent of nurseries and pre-schools would regularly or permanently use the new ratios, with the same small percentage predicting moderate or significant financial benefits from ratios changes. Fewer still – just 2 per cent of all nursery and pre-school respondents – say that ratio rule changes would lead to a cut in childcare fees at their setting.
The Alliance said that the results show that if the Government does push ahead with any plans to relax ratios, most settings won’t change their ratios, even fewer would do it regularly, fewer still would save any money from it and hardly any would reduce parent fees as a result.
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