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Opinion - Editor's view - The Government is belatedly moving to preserve best practice
Nursery World,
24 July 2008
The sustained fall in the number of nursery schools over the past years has been a crying shame. Their role as beacons of excellent practice and in developing great nursery practitioners has not saved large numbers of them from closure and amalgamation.
Local authorities have tended to look at nursery schools' relative expense, as opposed to the high value that their services provide. The temptation to have them swallowed up by a primary school can be too much to resist. True, some nursery schools have become children's centres, although they may lose the 'education' focus in the process. It is hard, however, for them to...
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