Speaking at a London conference on the future of maintained nursery schools, organised by Early Education, the employment and equal opportunities minister said that the Government had felt 'some concern' for the maintained nursery school sector over the past year and she was aware that many felt they were under threat, although she said statistics indicated that this was not really as great a problem as the nursery sector thought.
'You are expensive, you provide high quality, but because on the whole you are quite small, the overhead costs make that provision, from an LEA point of view, more expensive than others,' Mrs Hodge said. 'We want to hold on to what you are doing, but you have got to recognise that you are going to have to earn your role.'
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