Nursery World - Brick by brick (1)

Private nurseries are being built on to state schools, with radical implications for all providers. Simon Vevers looks at how the arguments stack up. When Jarvis, the international facilities management group, struck a deal under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) to build three new primary schools and refurbish another in the London borough of Richmond, the contract stipulated that each school site should also have a nursery.

When Jarvis, the international facilities management group, struck a deal under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) to build three new primary schools and refurbish another in the London borough of Richmond, the contract stipulated that each school site should also have a nursery.

While Jarvis has the financial clout and administrative infrastructure honed during PFI projects in the building, educational and engineering sectors, it does not pretend to have the expertise to create and run nurseries. Enter Asquith Court Schools - the largest nursery chain in the country, with all the know-how gleaned from running more than 100 nursery facilities - and the Asquith Jarvis joint venture was born.

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