The Wendy House Day Nursery in Wythall has opened a modular, airtight and insulated wooden building after receiving £230,000 funding from its local authority.
Worcester County Council invited early years education providers to bid for funding to help expand their provision to support delivery of the 30 hours free childcare, using money from the Department for Education’s Early Years Capital Fund.
The Wendy House Day Nursery’s Foundation Unit pre-school provision, which won Nursery World’s Business Development Award in 2016, was so over-subscribed that managers decided to apply for funding to make space for more children in view of the expansion to 30 hours.
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