Policies include reviewing nursery ratios of staff to children and extending MOT validity to two years
Boris Johnson is pushing to cut the cost of childcare by allowing nurseries in England to take in more toddlers without employing extra staff, as part of plans to relax health and safety rules to ease the cost of living.
At the moment, both England and Scotland allow one adult for every three children under two, but differ for children aged two, with England saying one adult for every four children and Scotland permitting one adult for every five children. The meeting was held after Johnson called on his cabinet to think of ways of reducing the cost of living crisis – just weeks after Rishi Sunak’s spring statement, which was criticised over its lack of help for families. However, they were warned that there would be no extra money and asked to come up with “non-fiscal” solutions.
It also comes as the cabinet is facing splits over No 10 and Jacob Rees-Mogg’s approach to trying to force civil servants back into the office. At least two cabinet ministers are known to be sceptical of Rees-Mogg’s confrontational approach of leaving notes on civil servants’ desks when they are seen to be not in the office, in addition to Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, who said the move was “Dickensian”.
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