One law for us, another law for them

Wednesday, March 3, 2004

The nursery education grant currently funds each child at our pre-school for up to five sessions of two-and-a-half hours per week for 11 weeks per term - a total of 33 weeks a year. Yet a four-year-old child in an early years class within a school receives an average of 39 weeks of free education per school year. Why is there this six-week difference between schools and daycare settings? If we used different sets of rules and regulations for each family within our pre-school, and had different formulae for working out fees that depended on which place you came from, wouldn't we be accused of discrimination?