The childminders, including Penny Webb, who has started a petition calling for the Department for Education not to make changes to ratios, Southampton childminder Lisa Fricker and Beth Thomas- owner of Happy Days Childcare in Worthing, West Sussex, have all spoken out against the proposed reforms to childcare.
Ms Fricker, an Ofsted registered childminder from Southampton, told Nursery World that the weekend before the Government released its response to the Nutbrown Review she found she could no longer read Ms Truss’ tweets.
Penny Webb has expressed her disappointment at not being able to follow @trussliz on Twitter.
She said, ‘I am very annoyed that Elizabeth Truss thinks it is appropriate to prevent myself and other members of the public from accessing a Twitter account that tweets Government-related information.
‘As someone who is going to be directly affected by the changes that Ms Truss is implementing in the early years sector, I feel as a British Citizen that I should be able to read and send comments.’
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