A substantial number of nurseries are heading for financial hardship or worse as they subsidise the cost of providing sessions, or pull out of the nursery education grant scheme and lose children to other provision. Local authorities have been told in no uncertain terms that it is up to them to make sure that sufficient nursery education places are on offer and could feel that they are being made scapegoats for a situation over which they have little control. And if the Government continues its non-negotiable stance, it will only serve to confirm the belief of some of the private and voluntary sector that the ultimate aim is to exclude and marginalise them.
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