In a report for think tank CentreForum, Ms Truss, who has been leading calls for childcare deregulation, proposes a single childcare support payment for parents, relaxations on ratios for childminders, and academy status for nurseries and children's centres, as well as reiterating her proposals for agency-style regulation of childminders.
Ms Truss wrote about her ideas for childminder deregulation, which have prompted a campaign against them from the National Childminding Association, for Nursery World.
The key recommendations from the CentreForum report are:
Key recommendations from the report:
The UK should raise ratios for childminders to 5:1 for the under fives whilst improving supervision. This headroom would enable either higher paid staff to be attracted to the profession, improving quality, or alternatively make the service more affordable and widely available.
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