The National Day Nurseries Association is calling on the Government to rethink its flagship 30-hours policy after a fifth of respondents to its annual survey said there is little or no chance they will be offering the extra free entitlement come September.
According to the data, gathered in the NDNA’s yearly poll of members, 20 per cent of the 788 respondents warned they ‘definitely will not or are unlikely to provide 30-hour places’.
Despite Government upping the funding for four in five local authorities, creating a £4 average minimum hourly rate for providers, a revolt continues to threaten the roll-out due in September, claims the NDNA’s Annual Nursery Survey 2017.
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