Labour to guarantee care for primary school children 8-6pm
This news came out last night...on the one hand I am happy to hear this on the other I am a bit confused
How will Labour do this I don't know and anything to make after school care more available is welcome...then reading on it says 'schools should club together'
Isn't that what this govt is doing at present...removing barriers for schools and schools and other providers 'working together'??
'' She said childcare should be seen as just as important as other infrastructure investments such as transport, and that Labour would be announcing "a guarantee to every parent that they will be able to get wraparound childcare from 8 to 6 every day".
Provision for parents represents an emerging political battleground, with the Labour move coming days after Nick Clegg announced that £600m a year would be spent on free school meals for all children in the first three years of primary school.
Figures released by the Labour party suggests that after-school provision has been hit hard by austerity measures since the coalition government came to power in 2010, with 37% of local authorities reporting a cut in after-school clubs last year while breakfast clubs have closed in 44% of local areas. The plans would mean that local schools could club together to provide care for a typical working day.''
Alarm bells are ringing here when schools are mentioned and not cms...
It would have been nicer for me to hear this:
schools will work together with cms to ensure there is availability of pre/after school care...
At my school parents have opened an after school club:3.15 to 5.30pn Cost £10 per session
Cheap eh?
but no hot meal at night, no homework, one big room with little in it and run by parents who do not want to work past 5.30pm and, of course, do not offer half term or holiday cover in their newly opened club...I wonder if that school will fail to get 'outstaning' for lack of flexibility as per Clegg's recommendations..
Have you come across such after school care...how does it compare to cms
I will be at the Labour party conference and listening with great interest...hope to feedback if any news come out for childcare...there are rumours
Better get ready and go and find that Sharon Hodgson!!!
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