Nursery World - New group joins funding campaign

The group begun in Kent to campaign against the new code of practice for nursery education funding has been joined by another branch set up by a nursery owner in Oxfordshire. Sally Fitchett, who owns Lighthouse Nursery School in Newington, Oxfordshire, has co-founded the branch of the PVI Providers Association with Morag Wagstaff, whose two-year-old attends her Montessori nursery.

Sally Fitchett, who owns Lighthouse Nursery School in Newington, Oxfordshire, has co-founded the branch of the PVI Providers Association with Morag Wagstaff, whose two-year-old attends her Montessori nursery.

Ms Wagstaff said, 'After finding a place for my daughter I was really worried that the nursery school might be forced to pull out of the funding or that the quality of care might change.'

Nurseries in Oxfordshire have been given a deadline of 4 May to sign up to 14 conditions to qualify for nursery education grant funding.

The list includes an agreement to comply with the Government's code of practice on nursery education for three-and-four-year-olds.

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