The Out of School Alliance, which represents members at more than 3,000 clubs nationally, made the comments following the Department for Education’s release of its consultation response this week.
Draft guidance issued in December set out how a policy giving parents ‘rights to request’ childcare before and after-school might work.
However according to the response, schools will have the power to reject the requests on a number of grounds.
Clare Freeman, the Alliance’s director, said, ‘Our general feeling was that the whole approach of the draft guidance was incorrect and ill-informed about how out of school clubs actually operate.
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