A thread on the Champagne Nurseries, Lemonade Funding (CNLF) Facebook group reveals that for a number of nursery owners and childminders, the only way they can continue to run their settings is with financial help from their husbands, partners and family members, or by using other streams of income.
Several said that if their partner did not earn a good wage, they would not be able to continue in early years.
Liz Burnett, manager of Rotherfield Village Pre-School – a term-time-only setting – told Nursery World, ‘I am very lucky that my partner has a good job. His money runs the household.
‘Last year, I earned £6,500. I wouldn’t be able to do this (run the setting) without my partner. One pre-school closed near us the other week.
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