I am very pleased to have secured a 90-minute debate on Thursday on the 30 hours of funded childcare and to have opportunity to detail all the problems experienced by parents, nurseries and childminders - and to have the Minister responsible to have to respond to the debate.
It will be easy for the Government to think they have ‘got away with’ the underfunding of the additional hours - childminders, those running nurseries and working parents of small children are generally busier than most of the population - so less likely to complain.
The Government are hoping that we will all go away and get on with looking after our children, and that they can carry on the underfunding scandal, ignoring the long-term implications for the childcare sector and for children.
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