Under its four-year plan, the council has already opened nine nursery schools in Kent's most deprived wards and a further 16 are currently being built. Phase three proposes a final ten nurseries by 2006, giving priority to the county's most deprived areas.
The ten proposed nursery units will be located on existing primary school sites in Canterbury, Swale, Tonbridge and Malling, Shepway, Thanet and Dover. Each nursery will cost 340,000 to set up and provide 26 places.
Dr Ian Craig, assistant director of education and libraries at Kent County Council, said the final phase of the plan would help to reach the council's target of offering pre-school places for 85 per cent of three- and four-year-olds in the county.
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