Just 3 per cent of childcare professionals feel that the Government adequately consults with the childcare sector when developing policy, the survey suggests.
The findings are published in the Early Years Agenda report, the first in a series of research papers that will contribute to the Alliance’s Early Years Manifesto for Government.
Nearly 1,300 (1,270) early years practitioners took part in the survey, which the Alliance says is double the response rate for any early years Government consultation in the past 18 months, and one of the most representative early years surveys of the past five years.
In a speech at the Alliance’s annual conference today, chief executive Neil Leitch will say, ‘When the minister announced in Parliament that the entire change of heart on ratios was down to political divide, and offered not a hint of acknowledgement to the views of the sector, for me, it set the scene of things to come.
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