More child places ‘will not cut cost of care’

MORE childminding facilities will not result in cheaper childcare, the National Children’s Nurseries Association (NCNA) has warned.

“People think that childcare will be cheaper if more places are provided but that will not happen because of the cost of providing the service,” NCNA national adviser, Ashling Hooper, said yesterday.

Ms Hooper accused the Government of portraying the image that, if they provide more places, the costs will go down. This would not happen because the costs involved were going up, she stressed.