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Evening Standard
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Anna Davis

Finding staff to back Government 30 hours childcare pledge is tough, says minister

Finding enough nursery staff to deliver the Government’s “radical” pledge to boost free childcare for working parents is a challenge, the children’s minister has admitted.

Nurseries across London have raised fears staff are fleeing the sector and can get better paid jobs at supermarkets. It comes after ministers promised to give 30 hours of free childcare a week to working parents of children from the age of nine months.

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