A petition calling for early years funding to increase has attracted more than 500 signatures within a day of it being started.
The petition on the Parliament UK website urges the Government to increase funding for early years settings to ensure they remain open in light of the 9.7 per cent rise to the national living wage, effective from April.
Behind the petition is Vicky Willetts, manager of Pre-school @ St Mark’s in Cheshire, who states, ‘We believe Government funding for early years settings is too low, and making it difficult to keep these settings open. This will only be more difficult with the increase in minimum wage. Everyone wants childcare standards high, but we believe more funding is needed to achieve this.
