Further pressure is being piled on the coalition Government in advance of the review of the free entitlement code of practice, with the release of a survey by the feisty Save Our Nurseries campaign.

This suggests that more than 1,900 childcare places could be lost from the free entitlement scheme by September, just from those PVI nurseries who responded to the survey, if the rules of the code are not amended to deal with funding shortfalls.
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There was great disappointment among many private and voluntary sector nurseries when the new Government decided to press ahead with the Code of Practice on the free entitlement rather than suspend it as the Conservatives had promised pre-election.
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The language of Government Bills and Acts is not what most of us would call ‘plain English’! So it is necessary to turn to the accompanying notes for illumination, and, even then, some very careful reading is required to decipher what the impact of legislative change could be.
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