Single Funding Formula changes force cut in nursery hours

By Melanie Defries, Nursery World, 7 October 2009

Maintained nursery schools in at least two parts of England have been told that their budgets will be slashed from next September because of the introduction of the single funding formula and the extension to the free entitlement.

From September 2010, maintained settings in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and in Greenwich, London, which currently offer free, full-time places, will only be funded to provide the 15 hour per week free entitlement, in line with other sectors. Dee Teasdale, headteacher of Walkergate Early Years Centre, in Walkergate, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, said, 'We may end up only opening for morning sessions and it could mean significant job...

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