Most respondents to the Department for Education's consultation on changes to staff: child ratios for two-year-olds are against the plans, which the Government says will start in September.
The Government’s response to the ratios consultation, which took place last summer, was published yesterday evening, hours after the Chancellor confirmed the Government would press ahead with increasing the number of two-year-olds nursery staff in England could care for.
The response confirms that the change will go ahead from September, ‘subject to parliamentary procedure.’
In his Budget speech on Wednesday, Jeremy Hunt said the Government would press ahead with changes to staff: child ratios in England, to allow nurseries and pre-schools to operate at a ratio of one staff member to five two-year-olds, rather than the current one to four ratio.
