{"id":53832,"date":"2023-12-03T14:11:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T14:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=53832"},"modified":"2023-12-03T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T14:11:48","slug":"jeremy-hunts-free-childcare-pledge-doomed-to-fail-as-thousands-of-nurseries-close-amid-staffing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/03\/jeremy-hunts-free-childcare-pledge-doomed-to-fail-as-thousands-of-nurseries-close-amid-staffing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Hunt\u2019s free childcare pledge \u2018doomed to fail\u2019 as thousands of nurseries close amid staffing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53367\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jeremy-Hunt1-300x178.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jeremy-Hunt1-300x178.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jeremy-Hunt1-360x214.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jeremy-Hunt1.jpeg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">T<\/span>housands of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nurseries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">nurseries<\/a>\u00a0have shut their doors\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/jeremy-hunt-free-childcare-budget-b2401248.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">amid a staffing crisis<\/a>, leaving\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jeremy-hunt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Jeremy Hunt\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0flagship Budget pledge to expand free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/childcare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">childcare<\/a>\u00a0for British families \u201cdoomed to failure\u201d,\u00a0<em>The Independent<\/em> has been told. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/jeremy-hunt-s-free-childcare-pledge-doomed-to-fail-as-thousands-of-nurseries-close-amid-staffing-crisis\/ar-AA1kTw0z?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=3476cf10e7594261a51838ad49ef1014&amp;ei=126\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Thousands of\u00a0nurseries\u00a0have shut their doors\u00a0amid a staffing crisis, leaving\u00a0Jeremy Hunt\u2019s\u00a0flagship Budget pledge to expand free\u00a0childcare\u00a0for British families \u201cdoomed to failure\u201d,\u00a0The Independent has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis","8":"post_format-post-format-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/nursery2.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53833,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53832\/revisions\/53833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}