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  Nursery ratios: Clegg blocks Tory attempt to relax childcare standards
  
  No 10 expresses dismay after deputy PM says there is no evidence that relaxing staff ratios would
  
  save parents money
  
  Nick Clegg says: 'I cannot ask parents to accept such a controversial change with no real guarantee it
  
  will save them money'.
  
  Coalition relations will reach a new low on Thursday when Nick Clegg announces that he is to kill off
  
  plans to relax child-to-staff ratios for childcare in England.
  
  Clegg said he had decided to block the plans by the Conservative children's minister, Liz Truss,
  
  because an extensive consultation had shown that her two key aims would fail. Relaxing child-to-staff
  
  ratios would not necessarily drive down the costs of childcare - and might even increase them - and
  
  would not necessarily improve standards, he said.
  
  In a sign of how coalition policymaking has descended into hand-to-hand combat between the Tories and
  
  the Liberal Democrats, Downing Street appeared to be caught off guard by the Clegg announcement.

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