Nursery World - Chain builds on neighbourhoods

Nine more neighbourhood nurseries and two more on-site nurseries for the NHS are being planned by the Buffer Bear chain. The new nurseries include a second 60-place setting in Poole, Dorset, at the end of November and a 60-place site at Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, before Christmas under the Neighbourhood Nursery Initiative (NNI). Earlier this year the group opened neighbourhood nurseries at Moulsecoomb and Whitehawk in Brighton in East Sussex, Rainham in Essex, Warrington in Cheshire, and Poole.

The new nurseries include a second 60-place setting in Poole, Dorset, at the end of November and a 60-place site at Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, before Christmas under the Neighbourhood Nursery Initiative (NNI). Earlier this year the group opened neighbourhood nurseries at Moulsecoomb and Whitehawk in Brighton in East Sussex, Rainham in Essex, Warrington in Cheshire, and Poole.

Funding has been confirmed for a further 50 NNI places at Buffer Bear's nursery in Newcastle. The site, which opened in 1994, currently offers around 20 of its 92 places through the scheme.

Several of Buffer Bear's planned or existing neighbourhood nurseries are based in the grounds of primary or secondary schools, in line with the Government's policy to have almost a third of neighbourhood nurseries built on school sites throughout England.

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