Providers in the private and voluntary sectors want to retain flexibility and keep control of their business under the new code of practice, writes Ruth Thomson.
Funding and flexibility will top early years settings' list of concerns as the Government urges providers to have their say in its two-part consultation, due to launch this week, on the Code of Practice governing the free entitlement.
Flagging up the consultation in last week's Nursery World (7 May), the minister of state for children, young people and families, Beverley Hughes, said the eight-week consultation would 'seek the views of local authorities, parents, carers and, most importantly, providers from all parts of the sector on key issues relevant to the successful delivery of the flexible extension to the free entitlement.'
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