What has happened?
n her party conference speech last week, Liz Truss promised to put “affordable childcare” at the centre of her supply-side reform and economic growth agenda, and her government has presented various draft proposals to the media ahead of more concrete plans expected soon. These include an overhaul of the subsidy system and a possible lump sum given directly to parents; relaxing or scrapping the rules governing the ratio of staff to children; and encouraging more childminders back into the market by replacing regulation by Ofsted, the education watchdog, with oversight by local
