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PVI settings lose £1 an hour to NEG
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
9 January 2008
Private, voluntary and independent nurseries are losing more than £1 per hour per child by offering places funded by the Nursery Education Grant, a leading business organisation has warned.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), which has 1,200 members who own day nurseries, carried out a survey to assess the impact of the Government's Code of Practice for nursery education for three- and four-year-olds. A parallel survey carried out with local authorities also revealed that many are ignoring the Government's insistence that nurseries should not charge any top-up fees and that the 12.5 hours a week entitlement should be free...
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