A £2bn a year programme to provide free childcare is failing to have a long-term impact on education standards, according to the spending watchdog.
Officials said there had been “no improvement” in results for seven-year-olds in recent years, despite the introduction of flagship reforms to give all infants access to weekly nursery sessions.
It was claimed that up to a fifth of parents in some areas failed to take up their free state entitlement and the quality of childcare
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