Childcare sector in ‘crisis’ with ‘pitiful’ number of childminders signing up to government grant scheme
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Exclusive: ‘This latest childminder numbers debacle is yet more evidence that the Tories offered a pledge without a delivery plan,’ says Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary