The roundtable meeting, which was due to take place tomorrow, 13 February, at the House of Commons between childminding organisations, childminders and the education and childcare minister, will now take place in March.
The rescheduling of the meeting comes after the Department for Education contacted the UKCMA, which is facilitating the discussion, at the beginning of the week to say the meeting would need to be postponed because of Ms Truss’ busy week ahead of a ministerial visit aboard.
According to the UKCMA, the minister had already changed the date of the meeting from 12 February.
Following this, a number of childminders contacted the childcare minister via her Facebook and Twitter accounts to express their dissatisfaction at the cancellation of the meeting.
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