Closure threatens combined nursery

One of England's flagship nursery schools is fighting for its life after the local authority announced plans to close it. The Maxilla Nursery School in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea has been told by the local authority that it intends to close the setting on 31 December. A public notice to close the 52-place nursery school published earlier this month said that all children currently attending it would be offered places 'as far as possible with parental preferences' in nursery classes and at another nursery school in the borough, 'where provision for the under-fives will be expanded, in...