Just the ticket

Government encouragement of employer-subsidised childcare has been given a warm welcome in the sector, but does it go far enough? Simon Vevers reports When Chancellor Gordon Brown confirmed in his recent pre-Budget report a tax relief of £50 a week for all employer-approved registered childcare, the proposal was greeted with enthusiasm throughout the sector, and a prediction from one of the principal childcare voucher providers that its business would increase ten-fold. The measures, which come into force...