An event to launch the report is being held at the House of Commons this afternoon, with Pen Green Centre, Early Education, Bates Wells Braithwaite and the National Campaign for Nursery Education.
The report, by Early Education and funded by the City of London Corporation, surveyed the approximately 400 remaining nursery schools and concludes that, ‘No other part of the education sector is as highly rated, and yet no other part of the sector faces a less certain future.’
Some 57 per cent of maintained nursery schools are rated outstanding by Ofsted, with 39 per cent rated good. They are concentrated in disadvantaged areas – 64 per cent are in the 30 per cent most deprived areas of England.
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