Labour has pledged to convert 3,334 spare classrooms into school-based nurseries, providing an extra 100,000 childcare places to meet anticipated extra demand from the expansion of the funded hours.
The new nurseries, which would be paid for by revenue raised from ending tax breaks for private schools, could be run by schools themselves or local private and voluntary providers. Labour estimates it will cost an average of £40,000 to turn classrooms in existing primary schools into 'school-based nurseries'.
The government also aims to improve the availability and quality of childcare for families by opening the nurseries in primary schools in areas with severe shortages of places, or childcare ‘deserts'.
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