However, another piece in the Nursery Business supplement (30 September) quotes Rosemary Murphy, National Day Nurseries Association chief executive, saying, 'Most schools in this country are going to be forced to have childcare on their sites'. Consequently she advises that nurseries close to schools should consider trying to relocate to school sites in order to stand a better chance of survival.
As the owners of a small private nursery in Islington we are not only deeply concerned by these comments, but highly confused. Is wraparound childcare, the Government's holy grail, to be concentrated in children's centres, or will it be in schools? And what part, if any, is to be played by the private sector in all this?
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