Session grant fails to cover nursery costs

By James Tweed, Nursery World, 25 June 2003

Day nurseries across England are finding it difficult to continue offering free childcare places to three- and four-year-olds as the Government's nursery education grant is failing to cover their basic costs and some parents are asking for refunds....

Day nurseries across England are finding it difficult to continue offering free childcare places to three- and four-year-olds as the Government's nursery education grant is failing to cover their basic costs and some parents are asking for refunds. The grant, currently worth a minimum of £1,248 a year or £416 a term, gives the parents of three- and four-year-olds up to five...

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