Children’s Commissioner publishes Vision for Childcare report

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The Children’s Commissioner has published the ‘vision for childcare’ report, which sets out research into the opportunities, challenges, and solutions to providing childcare and early education. This includes summarising what families want from childcare, the main difficulties surrounding the current provision of childcare including complexity of funding, affordability, availability of placements, flexibility of provision, and availability of information about local childcare. The report also provides recommendations on driving up the number of childminders, making sense of current funding streams, and providing accountability and oversight of quality.