Labour have pledged to reimpose a requirement to local councils to provide childcare via Sure Start centres in a bid to "save" the network.
However, shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt admitted in an interview that it would be up to charitable and private childcare providers, not councils, to resource the centres.
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has admitted that a Labour government would rely on charitable and private childcare providers to put "mothballed" Sure Start centres back into use.
Speaking on BBC1's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hunt said councils would be obliged by law to invite such providers to make use of Sure Start centres:
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