Plans to let nurseries and childminders look after more two-year-olds in England are put to parents
Staff at Yellow Wellies Day Nursery in Durham are worried the changes would reduce quality for two-year-olds
"But that's exactly why we are consulting because we've got to listen to the sector and, importantly, listen to parents to make sure that whatever we propose we are getting it right." he added.Mother-of-two Amanda Smallbone, whose younger child attends a Durham nursery, says that as a working parent she already felt guilty about putting her children in someone else's care.
In a separate interview with PA news agency, Mr Quince said other countries "put far more money into early years' education" - but people "pay a lot more in tax". "At lunchtime we have allergies, we have choking risks and usually we have some kind of toileting emergency and that is just with four of them," she says.
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