Nursery World - Council joins teaching union call for urgent review of nursery school funding

Council members in Lambeth have called on the Government to increase funding for the borough’s nursery schools.

Effra Early Years Centre in Lambeth

Lambeth Council has joined the National Education Union (NEU) and parents in a campaign to guarantee the future of its five local authority-maintained nursery schools, which between them cater for around 550 children between two-and five-years-old.

Council leader Jack Hopkins, deputy leader Jennifer Brathwaite and deputy cabinet member for schools Jane Pickard have written to the secretary of state for education, Gavin Williamson, appealing for a review of early years funding and a long-term settlement to ensure a secure future for the settings.

Extra funding awarded to the nursery schools by the Government in 2017 through the Maintained Nursery Schools Supplementary Funding (MNSS) pot is due to run out in August 2020.

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