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A sustainable and fair funding model for all types of childcare is important All parents, working or not, should have access to childcare, say experts in England, 16 May . However, in its report, the Early Education and Childcar
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stanley cup romania em to be self-financing. For commercial work this plainly makes sense. Elsewhere, however, it risks being downright dangerous.Six months ago the government decided that family cases, such as care proceedings, should pay for themselves. That meant local authorities had to bear the full cost of childcare cases, entailing a 30-fold increase in costs where a full hearing was needed . The propo
stanley cup sal was put out to consultation, but both the courts budget and local authority spending had already been set on the assumption that the change would be made. In the next few weeks the high court will decide whether the government is in breach of its human rights obligation to ensure that children have access to justice. The case was brought by four local authorities, backed by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, which believes that the new self-financing edict is putting children at risk.According to the Law Society - an interested party, but not necessarily wrong - the number of care cases has fallen by a quarter since the new system came in. That may be due to a new pre-hearing system designed t