The research is published as education and childcare minister Liz Truss was called to the House of Commons today to defend the Government's proposals to change childcare ratios.
The IPPR’s poll of more than 1,000 childminders, funded by the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY), shows that the majority of childminders are not planning to lower their costs or increase the number of children they care for should the Government press ahead with changes to childcare ratios.
Initial findings from the survey, released following concerns voiced by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg that changes to ratios will not benefit parents, reveal that 74 per cent of childminders do not intend on increasing the number of children they care for.
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