The Places for People Group, which has named its childcare subsidiary Places for Children, has hired former Jigsaw Day Nurseries chief executive Tom Shea to launch a number of Neighbourhood Nurseries. The first of the nurseries, which will all be new-build, opens in Hackney later this year, while others are planned in the London boroughs of Lewisham, Hounslow, Islington, Ealing and Southwark, as well as Manchester, Watford, Southampton and Newcastle.
Mr Shea, who founded the Jigsaw chain in 1990, said, 'We have been working with the Places for People Group for some time while they develop a series of neighbourhood nurseries. When they were interested in setting up a childcare subsidiary they wanted expertise and chose us to assist them.
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