The National Day Nurseries Association released the results of its annual survey (see story on this website), which included the rather incendiary finding that more than half of nurseries questioned said that they were ‘very unlikely’, ‘unlikely’ or ‘unsure’ about offering the 30 hours - the last thing that the Government wanted to hear and a finding inevitably picked up and run by TV, radio and newspapers.
These statistics have almost no chance of becoming reality, of course. It is relatively easy to tick a box in a survey, but much more difficult to carry this through. The consequences of not providing the 30-hour offer, such as losing half your parents to the large chain down the street, are just too great.
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