Nursery World has summarised the key concerns submitted in written evidence by those who will be in the frontline and key to putting the Government’s 30-hour commitment to working parents into practice.
The bill proposes an ‘extended entitlement’ to an additional 15 hours of free childcare for 38 weeks of the year for a ‘qualifying child of a working parent’ and a duty on all local authorities to publish information about childcare and related matters.
The Childcare Bill has now reached the report stage in the House of Commons and is expected to become law next year.
POLLY ANNA’S NURSERY, YORK
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