Nursery World - Holiday clubs victims of funding

Increased bureaucracy and funding issues have contributed to a drop in the number of holiday clubs, according to providers.

As Nursery World reported last week (14 August), BMRB research carriedout for the DCSF found that the number of holiday clubs fell by 9 percent between 2006 and 2007 to 5,800, following a sharp rise in numbersbetween 2003 and 2006.

The number of places in holiday clubs dropped by 13 per cent to230,000.

Jackie Nunns, director of Kids City, which runs three London holidayplayschemes with 160 children a day in Wandsworth and Lambeth, as wellas out-of-school childcare, told Nursery World they would like to runmore holiday clubs but were prevented 'partly because of funding, partlyaccess to school buildings and building work taking place in children'scentres during the holidays. We're working with schools who want us torun services but they haven't enough money.'

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