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Edinburgh to miss 15-hour a week nursery education target
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
2 July 2008
Edinburgh Council will fail to meet a 2010 target to increase free nursery provision to 570 hours a year without more funding from the Scottish Government.
The targets are for all three- and four-year-olds to receive 15 hours of free education for 38 weeks per year by autumn 2010. Speaking at a committee meeting, councillor Marilyne MacLaren, convener of education, children and families, said the target would cost £800,000. She confirmed the council could not afford this. Ms MacLaren said, 'At the moment the majority of nursery-age children receive 475 hours per year [12.5 hours a week], which is the...
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