The most common motivator for childminders, nurseries and pre-schools looking to implement the 30 hours childcare offer is the benefit it brings to parents, according to data company Ceeda. When the Government launched the offer in September 2017, it quoted a mother involved in the pilot scheme declaring the policy ‘the greatest gift a working parent can be given’.
But technical glitches, extra charges and confusion over what is available have contributed to a rocky start for the programme, and not all parents are convinced.
Nursery World spoke to some of them to see how they were finding the 30 hours offer so far.
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