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Free entitlement funding fails to cover cost to nurseries
By Simon Vevers,
Nursery World,
23 April 2008
More than 60 per cent of nurseries do not cover their costs when delivering the free early years entitlement, according to a new survey by Laing and Buisson.
Interim results from its 2007/2008 Children's Day Care Nurseries Survey also showed that at the start of 2008, nurseries were receiving an average of just 34p more for delivering a 2.5 hour session than they did in 2007 - a rise from £7.92 to £8.26. While this estimated 4.3 per cent rise is above the rate of inflation, fewer than a third - 30 per cent - of the nurseries surveyed said...
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