Nursery World - Sector slams DfE for failing to address 30-hour childcare challenges

Early years sector organisations have warned that the Government is putting the 30-hour childcare policy in jeopardy by failing to listen to providers’ concerns.

The National Day Nurseries Association has accused the Government of rushing out the 30 hours childcare policy for working parents, and says the Department for Education guidelines on what nurseries are able to charge for are ‘fuzzy’.

The 30-hour childcare entitlement for working parents will be rolled out across England in September, but the sector organisation is urging the Government to invest more money in the scheme and ‘take stock’.

The Pre-school Learning Alliance said it was ‘abundantly clear’ more investment was needed and without it more nurseries would close.

The organisations were responding to the DfE’s evaluation of the eight early implementer pilots for the 30 hours of free childcare, published today.

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