Standards in public life matter, but so too do standards in public policy
that the Prime Minister’s wife Akshata Murty had shares in Koru Kids, one of the six childminder agencies that would benefit from taxpayer cash in the Budget.to be more open about that financial interest when quizzed about it by MPs.
But Sir Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Committee, was clearly not completely satisfied and wrote back with new queries of his own. On the issue of engagement with the childcare sector, things are a bit murky to say the least. A Freedom of Information request was submitted to the Department for Education in January, asking for records of any meetings between ministers, officials and Koru Kids since last October.
As it happens, just two weeks before the Budget, Baillie hosted the boss of Koru Kids in the Commons,Yet if the Government had embarked on wider “engagement” with the childcare sector over its plans, it may have found that plenty of childminders really don’t see the point of these agencies at all.were created in 2014 by the David Cameron government, which wanted to offer childminders an alternative way of being regulated other than by the state-run Ofsted.
One reply from a childminder was typical: “I do not see why I would need to pay a money subscription or for an agency to take a percentage of my earnings – our earnings aren’t exactly high.” And this is the central problem with the Chancellor’s Budget promises on childcare as a whole. Not only will it be some time before the amount of free hours can be delivered, there are almost no answers on boosting the workforce or on maintaining and improving standards.
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