“Concerning” Changes to Childcare Ratios
News release 29th January 2013The owner of a UK childcare group has voiced concerns over the Government’s proposals to increase the number of children staff can care for at one time. Sarah Steel, Managing Director of The Old Station Nursery Group which has settings in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, says the changes being proposed are “concerning”. Education and Childcare Minister Liz Truss has outlined plans to allow nurseries and childminders in England to be allowed to look after more children per adult. The ratio of children to