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Welsh nursery provision faces fresh threat

Nursery provision in Wales could be hit by cuts to the local Government budget.

Rhondda Cynon Taf county council will meet on Friday to discuss cutting the nursery provision budget as part of a wider reduction in local service funding in order to fill a £30m funding gap in the council budget next year.

School music lessons, street cleaning and park services will also be affected by the cuts.

These potential cuts come not long after parents in Rhondda Cynon Taf successfully fought a legal battle over the council’s plan to cut full-time nursery education provision for three-year-olds.

Parents Against Cuts to Education in RCT won a judicial review in the High Court in London to overturn the council's plans for childrne to start full-time nursery at four instead of three.

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