Show us where the cash comes from

So Margaret Hodge is not going to expand the early years sector at the expense of a workforce on low salaries ('Hodge ties expansion of childcare to pay', News, 20 November). I read this news story with interest but saw no definite, concrete proof that the minister for children is going to increase the salaries of low-paid childcare workers. Indeed, with the rise in the number of private nurseries paying the lowest possible salaries, how is she going to do this? I then glanced at Nursery World's senior appointments page, which had an advertisement for a regional director with a...