I own a London-based private full daycare setting currently rated as good with outstanding areas of provision.
What other private business offering professional, high-quality services for ten hours a day over 52 weeks a year is forced to charge almost half of their fees as a result of the new code of practice regarding the 'free' entitlement? I receive, along with other private nurseries in my area, £3.71 per hour for providing services that cost me £6.50 per hour.
Five nurseries and mine are again meeting the local authority at the end of the month to raise our concerns about signing the new provider agreements which, if we sign in their current form, would mean us agreeing to subsidise the shortfall received for offering this entitlement to our parents.
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