During a question-and-answer session with the minister at the summit at the Nursery World Show at London’s Business Design Centre, one delegate said, ‘I would like to make a suggestion that won’t cost you any money, but I guarantee you won’t do it.’
The minister jokingly replied, is it ‘for me to resign?’
The delegate went on to say, ‘I would like you to change the way the communications pretend it is 15 or 30 hours of “free” childcare.'
She questioned how she can tell parents they will have to pay £23.50 for 30 minutes outside of the funded hours as the money she will receive from her local authority from April doesn’t cover the actual cost of delivery.
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