Nurseries shut down without notice

By Laura Marcus, Nursery World, 14 December 2006

Staff and parents were informed of the collapse of a leading Scottish childcare provider just hours before the service was terminated last Monday. KidCare, a not-for-profit organisation whose parent company is the charity OnePlus, announced its liquidation and shut down all its facilities at 6pm on 4 December. These included a creche at the Scottish Parliament and nurseries at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. At 3.30pm, 75 members of staff were informed that they would have no jobs to come to the following day.

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