Steve Taylor, managing director of Winchcombe Farm Day Nursery in Upper Tysoe, has collected more than 5,000 signatures from parents and fellow childcare professionals who support his idea to replace the 30-hour childcare scheme for working parents with childcare credits paid directly into their Tax-Free Childcare accounts.
Instead of signing up for 30 hours, eligible parents would receive around £5,000-£6,000 a year directly from the Government - in line with the current funding amounts - to enable them to flexibly 'buy' the childcare they require.
'Giving parents this option would save millions of government pounds on employing a league of officials within 150 local authorities to administer this very complicated and overly bureaucratic "free hours" scheme, which is full of forms and red tape,' Mr Taylor wrote in his petition.
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