Speaking at the Family and Childcare Trust’s Westminster Briefing event yesterday (December 12), children’s minister Elizabeth Truss re-iterated her Government’s commitment to increase childcare capacity, drive up quality and provide affordability.
She said, ‘Any good or outstanding nursery will be able to access money [for the free entitlement] – just like childminders – without jumping through bureaucratic hoops – and we estimate about 80 per cent of nurseries will automatically get funding.’
She outlined the intention to replace a patchwork of local quality and registration requirements, with single, national quality and registration standards – ‘So that expansion across more than one authority is easier.’
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