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Council nurseries to lose their kitchens
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
15 May 2008
All but four of Edinburgh's city nurseries are to lose their on-site catering facilities from next month, as part of council cost-cutting measures.
Six primary schools will also no longer be able to cook meals on site. Hot meals are to be prepared in neighbouring schools and transported in insulated boxes to the schools and nurseries. Catering staff at the affected settings are to be redeployed to other schools. A council spokesman said that most nurseries had too little demand to make employing catering staff cost-effective. Marilyne MacLaren, convener for Education, Children and Families at Edinburgh council, said, 'These kitchens will be mothballed for up...
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