Sunnybrook Day Nursery, which provides childcare for Bilborough Children's Centre in Nottingham, and has 113 children registered, is to close in March. The social enterprise nursery had a financial arrangement with Nottingham council whereby its funding would reduce over three years until March 2010, by which time it was hoped that the nursery would be sustainable via fee charging.
David Crooks, director of the Glenbrook Childcare Partnership, the social enterprise that operates Sunnybrook Day Nursery, said, 'The issue is that the number of children taking up the places isn't enough to pay the bills; only seven three- to four-year-olds have taken up wraparound care.
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