Nursery World - Nursery school heads want freedom to convert to academies

Maintained nursery schools should be able to convert to academy status like primary, secondary and special schools, a parliamentary group will be told on Tuesday.

Chaired by Graham Stuart MP, former chair of the education select committee, the second meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Nursery Schools and Nursery Classes will hear from nursery school leaders and headteachers who say that nursery schools will be left in ‘an anomalous position’ as more schools convert to academies.

More than 370 nursery school representatives are expected to attend today's meeting.

The APPG itself has been set up to to highlight and protect the high quality education provided by the remaining 400 plus nursery schools, many of which are also models of training and good practice for the early years’ community.

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