Nursery World - Special Report: Private nurseries

It is time the Government recognised the need for private day nurseries to make a profit, or its childcare initiatives will not survive, argues Purnima Tanuku.

Profit is not a word that you frequently hear within the day nursery sector. The idea that a setting is 'making money out of parents', it seems, is not acceptable.

But profit is central to the survival of nurseries as a business and to the sustainability of the day nursery sector as a whole. Without profit, a business cannot continue to be successful, as it has no means of raising the funds to invest back and improve quality further, nor can it build up reserves for when times may be tough or occupancy low. A lack of profit points to a lack of sustainability - even charities have to make a profit or a surplus for their services to remain available in the long term.

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