In the letter, parent campaign group Fair Funding for Our Kids (FFFOK) asks the first minister Nicola Sturgeon to provide Glasgow City Council with an additional £2m, the amount required to guarantee a funded place for all three- and four-year-olds in private partnership nurseries.
Last year, FFFOK estimated that more than 1,000 children in Glasgow were unable to take up their 600 hours of free childcare as the majority of places are available at council-run settings.
Most of the council’s nurseries are open term-time only and require parents to take the free hours in blocks of three hours 10 minutes in the morning or afternoon, rather than as full days.
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