Particular issues were raised about funding based on participationrather than places.
All of the local authorities present said they would not be able topreserve their maintained nursery schools without taking funding fromthe schools budget.
In Birmingham they had earmarked 'a safety net' fund for two years toprotect 25 nursery schools, which would suffer with cuts to their hoursfrom full-time to part-time based on funding through take-up rather thanplaces.
Lesley Adams, head of integrated services for children and families,told the committee that because funding was also based on deprivationfactors, some nursery schools which are not in deprived areas would loseout because some of the funding will go to PVI nurseries.
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