A survey by Early Education released tomorrow at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Nursery Schools has found that the majority of maintained nursery schools expect to run deficit budgets next year.
Maintained nursery schools were granted £60m a year in extra funding last year but this is due to end in 2020.
Tory MP for North Warwickshire and Bedworth, Craig Tracey, and Gillian Keegan for Chichester, have raised the issue with ministers.
Amanda King, executive headteacher of two maintained nursery schools in Warwickshire, told the Radio 4 Today programme that without supplementary funding the nursery schools could not survive financially.
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