Hodge ties expansion of childcare to pay

Childcare is not going to expand at the expense of a workforce on low salaries, England's minister for children pledged last week. Margaret Hodge made the comment following her address at the Daycare Trust's annual conference in London. During a question and answer session, a nursery nurse from Scotland told her that 5,000 nursery nurses there are on strike for better pay and that a nursery nurse with ten years' experience could have an annual salary of only...