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Exclusive: Education secretary Bridget Phillipson insists she is unafraid of scheme’s soaraway popularity, describing it as a ‘good problem to have’

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Ministers have been warned the childcare sector is at risk of “collapse” after a boom in demand for free care left a major government scheme in financial peril.