Rising overheads: Under pressure

National insurance rises are not the only threat to nursery profits, says Mary Evans Thousands of childcare employers and workers are belatedly waking up to the fact that profits will be hit and pay packets reduced as a result of last month's hike in national insurance contributions. Although leading figures in the profession had warned about the impact of the NI increases, announced in last year's budget, it is clear from readers' calls to Nursery World that some employers and workers were caught unawares by the...