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Funding fails free places
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
10 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 current maximum. It...
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