Early years left out of help for housing

James Tweed
Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Nursery nurses and other early years staff working for local authorities do not appear on the Government's list of key public service workers eligible for its 5bn affordable housing initiative in England. The key worker programme, which succeeds the Starter Home initiative from 1 April next year, was unveiled last week by deputy prime minister John Prescott. The programme will have four options to help key workers own their own homes, move up the property ladder to buy family homes or rent at affordable levels. A Key Teacher Homebuy will also provide equity loans of between 50,000 and 100,000 to 1,000 teachers about to move into leadership positions in London schools over the next two years.