Nursery World - MPs propose academy status for nursery schools

MPs have suggested that nursery schools should be able to become academies to guarantee their funding.

At an adjournment debate at Westminster Hall today, secured by Pat Glass, Labour MP for North West Durham, on the future of nursery schools, Lucy Powell, shadow minister for children and childcare, said that nursery schools should be able to secure academy status to enable them to enjoy the same freedoms as schools.

She went on to say that the challenge nursery schools face is that they are not seen as either schools or nurseries.

Graham Stuart, chair of the Education Select Committee, who was also present at the debate, said he had already raised the issue of nursery schools being able to become academies with senior ministers on behalf of nursery school heads.

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