Nursery World - Children and families minister to look at regulation of childcare sector with visit to France

The Department for Education (DfE) is to review the regulation of early years settings in a bid to reduce the cost of childcare for families.

Will Quince, minister for children and families, wants to explore how the childcare sector is regulated in a bid to reducing costs for families

Will Quince, the minister for children and families, revealed this morning that the DfE is going to look at how the sector is regulated, which will include visiting other countries, including France, to see how they do 'things differently'.

Speaking to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning in response to a question from presenter Nick Robinson about whether the Government will deregulate childcare, as some people in the Conservative party think regulations are ‘too tight’, Quince confirmed regulation is something they are going to look at.

He said, ‘I’m not going to apologise for having world class settings. I am going to look at regulation and in part that’s because I need to see what is happening abroad, flying over to Sweden and France and the Netherlands and see how they do it differently.’

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