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By Sophie Huskisson The Education Secretary has refused to guarantee the Government’s childcare pledge will be met on time as she is “not in control of all the bits”. Gillian Keegan said she was “really confident” parents would be able to access an expansion of Government-funded childcare but stressed she could not offer an iron-clad guarantee. It comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak insisted last month all eligible children in England would be able to benefit from the Tories’ childcare plan. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced in March that eligible families of children as young as nine months…

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