Ensuring there is enough staff to expand childcare is a challenge, says minister
Claire Coutinho told MPs that parents sometimes do not understand the quality of provision that childminders offer.
Ensuring that nurseries and childminders have enough staff to expand free childcare for families is a “challenge”, an education minister has suggested.
Claire Coutinho acknowledged that “lots of childminders have left” the sector and she wants to make sure that childcare professionals “feel valued”.
The children, families and wellbeing minister told the Commons Education Select Committee that there is “work to do” to communicate to parents who sometimes do not understand that childminders get quality outcomes.
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