Nursery schools are closing while more and more primary schools are opening nursery classes. What effect will this have on early years education? asks Mary Evans
The latest Government figures confirm the suspicions of nursery campaigners that more and more of the country's youngest children are receiving their early years education in nursery classes attached to primary schools, rather than at traditional nursery schools.
According to a Department of Education spokesman, there were 564 Local Education Authority nursery schools in England in January 1990 and 4,668 primary school with nursery classes, but by January this year those figures had changed to 514 and 6,203 respectively.
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