The council had wanted to implement a new policy after the Easter holiday that would have stopped children with a relative employed in the setting they attend from being able to access their early education funding.
Nurseries had reacted angrily to the move, which would have caused disruption to thousands of children across the county.
Nurseries had received an email on 27 March giving them just two weeks’ notice of the change, which could have left nursery staff without a funded place for any child they were related to, whether as a parent, a blood relative or by marriage.
Their choice would have been to either forgo the funding to keep the child in the same nursery, leave their jobs, or try to find alternative childcare before the start of the summer term.
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