Study Shows Failure of Universal Pre-K in Britain

Study Shows Failure of Universal Pre-K in Britain:
"A scathing report, highlighted in the UK Daily Mail, details the findings of the Institute of Economic Affairs regarding Britain’s universal free childcare program.
The bottom line: researchers have concluded that a government-funded, government-mandated universal daycare and pre-K program has done nothing more than bankrupt the middle class while failing to serve the country’s poor. 
What’s worse, government involvement has led to excessive regulation that not only drives up programming costs, but limits parental choice when it comes to how they would like to care for and educate their own children.
Co-author of the report Len Shackleton, an editorial research fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said:
Government interventions in the childcare sector have resulted in both British families and taxpayers bearing a heavy burden of expensive provision.
Regulation has led to an excessive formalisation of childcare and pre-school, which has not only pushed up costs but paid scant attention to parental preferences.
...Rowing back on unnecessary regulation and focusing public funds on those who need it, rather than subsidising the well-off, would be a good way to start..."