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Tory plan to expand free childcare is ‘undeliverable’, nurseries in England warn
(www.theguardian.com)
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The funded care was already a mess, adding more strain is only going to compound the issue. Biggest one for me is that the government don't pay the nursery's enough per child, so they're forced to pass the costs onto parents.
Which might be fine if one set of parents are getting significantly cheaper childcare than they would have previously, but if you're entitled to the 30 funded hours (like us) you end up in a spot where the hours are technically free, but the charges on top push it out of reach, which sort of defeats the purpose of the entire operation.