All nursery school head teachers have received questionnaires from theDCSF-funded project, which will be analysed for a final report nextApril.
Consultants Pauline Trudell and Barbara Riddell are running theproject.
Ms Trudell estimates that there are around 400 nursery schools left inthe UK, compared with around 500 in 1997.
She said, 'It's not a campaign against closures - it's trying to findout what happened to nursery schools and how we look at their resources,skills and expertise. We're really looking at how nursery schools caninfluence local authority practice and how they could be deployed tohelp all children and families in their area. But if nursery schools areswallowed up by primary schools or disappear, it would be an enormousretrospective step.'
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