Nurseries taken over by social enterprise

By Catherine Gaunt, Nursery World, 26 June 2008

A new social enterprise nursery group has taken over the running of two neighbourhood nurseries originally set up by Bournemouth Borough Council.

Sequal Childcare is to operate Boscombe Neighbourhood Nursery and Townsend Neighbourhood Nursery from 1 August. The newly formed company of three nurseries is a subsidiary of Sequal Solutions, which operates two other social enterprise businesses: Sequal Staff, which provides support workers for other third sector organisations, and Sequal Foundations, which helps people who have experienced difficulties and social deprivation return to work. 'We're committed to supplying affordable childcare,' said Sequal's development manager Lucy Culkin. She said that initially Sequal's other businesses would re-invest into the...

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