Findings from the Department for Education’s Pulse providers survey reveal 68 per cent of group-based providers have not changed the number of places they offer. A total of 21 per cent have decreased their number of places, while just 10 per cent have increased them over the last 12 months.
It shows that 72 per cent of childminders have not changed their number of places, while 13 per cent have decreased their number of places and just 15 per cent have increased.
A total of 1,804 providers took part in the survey that ran in November 2023.
The Early Years Alliance argued that the Government’s repeated claims that the early entitlement expansion is on track, ‘couldn’t be further from the truth’.
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