The new Bright Beginnings Childcare Centre is funded by Leeds University and will be run by a charitable subsidiary that plans to devise other ways of raising income to ensure it remains financially secure in the long term.
It will nearly double the number of childcare places available to children of staff and students, from 75 to 144, and provide a permanent home for the university's playscheme, which is currently located in the student union building.
For the past ten years Bright Beginnings has been housed in a purpose-built portable building.
The new setting is intended to meet an increase in demand for childcare places and enable more students, who may be deterred from pursuing higher education by the lack of childcare provision, to enrol at the university.
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