The London Borough of Lambeth is due to issue guidance for providers shortly but a decision has not yet been made on whether providers will have to sign up to it.
This follows the findings from a report carried out for Camden council that 1,500 nursery education places were under threat because the majority of PVI providers in the area would have to withdraw from the scheme if they were unable to charge top-up fees (News, 16 November).
Angie West, business support officer at Lambeth Early Years and Sure Start said that 'very few PVI providers' were able to meet the real cost of the nursery education place. She said, 'There's a danger that we are going to lose providers, because some of them are struggling.
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