Thousands of parents and childcare workers have signed a petition against plans to reduce staff in early years settings. We reported last week how the Prime Minister is considering relaxing childcare ratios in a bid to cut costs for parents.
The relaxing of health and safety rules would allow nurseries in England to take in more toddlers without employing extra staff. Joanne and Dan Thompson, from Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, are among those fighting the move.
Their baby daughter Millie was just nine months old when she died after choking on food at nursery in 2012. And now a petition set up by the grieving mother of another child, Oliver Steeper, has been signed by more than 45,000 people.
