The National Day Nurseries Association has highlighted the burden that business rates place on settings and has long campaigned for them to be made exempt and given 100 per cent relief from business rates.
In response to calls from the sector, childcare minister Sam Gyimah has asked the Department for Communities and Local Government to write to councils urging them to offer business rate relief to nurseries (see letter below).
For those councils that offer this to nurseries, central Government will meet 50 per cent of the costs involved.
Mr Gyimah is also calling for closer working between early years leaders and their financial colleagues in local authorities.
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