One of the largest nursery groups in the country has launched a petition calling for the Government to urgently review funding for three- and four-year-olds, after losing more than 10 per cent on the hourly rate at one of its settings.
Tops Day Nurseries owns 17 nurseries and receives funding from eight local authorities across Hampshire, Dorset and Somerset. It provides more than 1,300 nursery places.
Its petition calls for the Government to urgently review the funding and not wait until 2017, after the chain received news that for most of its nurseries, funding will not rise this year. It has also written to local authorities and MPs.
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