It seems that when ministers are presented with settings that offer good provision, their response is to close them down. Do they not realise that when they cut these facilities and put children elsewhere, they just add to the problem of parents who cannot afford to travel or pay for places or meals?
This just proves to me that money comes before children, say if the premises are on a prime development spot. Maybe if a day nursery can move the goalposts and look into changing the title that it operates under, for example a pre-school, it might get somewhere.
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