The council is due to consult on the plans to devolve its nurseries to local schools or other providers this week.
All five council-run day nurseries in Salford have been under threat of closure since February, as the council looks to plug a combined early years services budget gap of £1.75m.
The new consultation is in response to a previous 90-day consultation process on a more cost-effective way to deliver the local authority nurseries, which ran from 26 March until 25 June 2018.
The majority of the 111 responses agreed with the proposal to ‘find a more cost effective way of delivering the five local authority nurseries’.
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