Nursery World - Rishi Sunak believed to have scrapped childcare ratio changes

The Government has declined to confirm or deny reports that Rishi Sunak has ditched plans to relax staff-to-child ratios in nurseries, alongside scrapping other childcare reforms.

Early year providers and parents are calling for more investment and say childcare reforms are urgently needed PHOTO Adobe Stock

It is believed that the prime minister has abandoned the plans to cut the number of staff required to care for two-year-olds in nurseries drawn up when Boris Johnson was prime minister, and which were also championed by Liz Truss during her brief tenure as PM.

The early years sector and thousands of parents had protested against the ratio changes, which would have seen the number of two-year-olds early years staff can look after increase from 1:4 to 1:5.

A consultation on the ratio plans was launched in July and concluded in September. No Government response has so far been published.

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