Nursery World - Nurseries turn out to debate funding (1)

The grassroots campaign against the Government rules for nursery education funding was stepped up last week when 400 private and voluntary nursery providers attended a meeting called by Kent County Council. The meeting debated the revised version of the local authority's interpretation of the Government's Code of Practice for the free early education entitlement for three-and four-year-olds, with a panel including KCC leader Paul Carter, Darrell King, chair of the Association of PVI Providers (Kent) and DfES deputy director Graham Archer.

The meeting debated the revised version of the local authority's interpretation of the Government's Code of Practice for the free early education entitlement for three-and four-year-olds, with a panel including KCC leader Paul Carter, Darrell King, chair of the Association of PVI Providers (Kent) and DfES deputy director Graham Archer.

Mr Carter pledged to lobby Government over what he called the TCinderalla service of early years, which he said meant greater demands placed on providers with less funding.

KCC had invited nearly 700 private and voluntary providers to disc'ss its version of the Code, a draft of the Delegated Conditions.

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