Parents received a letter from the council at the end of June telling them that funding for private nursery provision was no longer available. Many parents then found they could not get places in local authority nurseries close to their home or work.
In the face of protests from parents, private nursery owners and politicians, however, the council last week wrote to parents telling them they could now re-apply for a free private nursery place for their three-year-olds for the forthcoming session. But in a separate letter it warned nursery owners that funding for similar places cannot be guaranteed in subsequent years.
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