Caveat Emptor, Labour Voters!

A government policy to create 100,000 new nursery places using spare capacity in English primary schools is “unlikely to work”, according to research. The research blames a geographical mismatch between capacity and demand, while leaders in the sector have raised concerns about staffing, the provision of sleep areas for the youngest children, toilets that are too big and sinks that are too high for nursery age children.

Another Labour campaign promise spirals to the ground in flames, like a novice pilot in 1918 who tried to tackle Von Richthofen... 

The success of the policy is critical as the government is under pressure to create sufficient places to fulfil its promise of 30 hours of free childcare a week for eligible parents of children aged from nine months to three years from next September.

And is it not gouing to meet that anywhere? 

FE says London is the only region where spare reception space will meet and could exceed additional demand for nursery places, as schools in the capital’s rolls fall due to a declining birthrate. Elsewhere, only a small proportion of projected demand will be met by spare capacity – just 13% in the East Midlands, 25% in the east of England and 32% in the West Midlands.

Ah. Well, to Starmer's mob, no doubt London's all that counts, so they'll probably simply declare victory regardless.