{"id":80044,"date":"2018-02-15T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T10:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scottish-plan-to-double-free-childcare-faces-risks-says-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T11:03:39","slug":"scottish-plan-to-double-free-childcare-faces-risks-says-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scottish-plan-to-double-free-childcare-faces-risks-says-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish plan to double free childcare faces risks, says watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAudit Scotland highlights gap between Scottish government\u2019s and councils\u2019 estimate of costsThe Scottish government\u2019s ambition to double childcare hours by 2020 is facing \u201csignificant risks\u201d, according to a spending watchdog. Nicola Surgeon made her flagship pledge to increase from 600 to 1,140 the hours available for all three- and four-year-olds and vulnerable two-year-olds in her first programme for government, in November 2014. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Audit Scotland highlights gap between Scottish government\u2019s and councils\u2019 estimate of costsThe Scottish government\u2019s ambition...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-kP2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":73557,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/30-hours-of-free-childcare-scheme-ruled-misleading-by-advertising-watchdog\/","url_meta":{"origin":80044,"position":0},"title":"30 hours of \u2018free\u2019 childcare scheme ruled misleading by advertising watchdog","date":"December 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Father of three-year-old boy complained government offer was valid for only 38 weeks a year and subsidised by other chargesThe government has been cowed into clarifying the facts about its \u201cfree\u201d childcare offer after a father complained to the advertising watchdog that the Department for Education\u2019s description was misleading.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":74928,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/foster-children-to-be-entitled-to-same-amount-of-free-childcare-as-others\/","url_meta":{"origin":80044,"position":1},"title":"Foster children to be entitled to same amount of free childcare as others","date":"December 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r UK foster children gain access to 30 hours of care after U-turn announced by children and families minister Robert GoodwillFoster children will be entitled to the same amount of free childcare as other children, a minister has announced. 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