Over the coming months, the nation's families will find it increasingly hard to cover the costs of good quality childcare. This is the undivided opinion of providers we spoke to in order to gauge response to George Osborne's long-awaited Comprehensive Spending Review.
While offering the free entitlement to disadvantaged two year-olds is viewed as a positive, providers' overwhelming concern is with the extent to which cuts will jeopardise services and business sustainability.
- Peter Catling, centre head, Woodlands Park Nursery School and Children's Centre in Tottenham, north London
'Although the money to children's centres is safeguarded, it isn't ring-fenced, which means that what goes on at a local level will be crucial. In our borough there is a commitment to children's services, so we would expect that to carry through.
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