Special Report: Private nurseries - Profit or loss?

Nursery World, 12 September 2007

It is time the Government recognised the need for private day nurseries to make a profit, or its childcare initiatives will not survive, argues Purnima Tanuku.

Profit is not a word that you frequently hear within the day nursery sector. The idea that a setting is 'making money out of parents', it seems, is not acceptable. But profit is central to the survival of nurseries as a business and to the sustainability of the day nursery sector as a whole. Without profit, a business cannot continue to be successful, as it has no means of raising the funds to invest...

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