Editor's view

Congratulations to the nurseries and pre-schools of Kent for turning out in such force to the council's meeting about the Code of Practice on nursery education funding (see News, page 4). Some 400 owners and managers packed out the premises, such is the strength of their feeling about the potentially disastro's effects on their businesses of the current level of Government funding and the ban on any kind of top-up fee. Congratulations, too, to the local authority leaders in Kent, who have listened to the campaigners' case and have promised to speak up for them at the highest level. Protest...