Camden Council’s proposals, which went out for consultation last week, aim to address the high levels of spare capacity within its maintained childcare settings and make better use of nurseries based in primary schools.
Currently the council runs nine maintained nurseries and five children’s centres.
According to Camden, it has an oversupply of childcare places for three- and four-year-olds. It says this is due to the introduction of the national funding formula which meant it had to withdraw its offer of 25 hours of early education for all three- and four-year-olds in school and council-maintained nurseries. Many families do not meet the criteria for the 30 hours. Also, the number of children under five living in the borough has fallen since 2013.
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