Nursery World - Editor's View

Call it a U-turn or a clarification, restricting providers’ access to the furlough scheme at the last minute could be devastating

Liz Roberts

Nursery World’s story about the Government’s decision to backtrack on commitments made that nurseries could both receive free entitlement funding and claim for furloughing staff without restrictions during the pandemic broke on the evening of 17 April.

It is certainly the most-read story we have ever run – so far, the online report has been read nearly a quarter of a million times. That is a measure of how seismic this move was.

The Government’s reasoning that nurseries should not be double-funded by claiming staff costs in the furlough scheme that are also being paid for by public funding is not in itself outlandish.

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