The call comes after the case of a Montessori nursery in North East Lincolnshire, which is fighting the local authority’s decision to place strict criteria on providers delivering 15 hours of free childcare for three- and four-year-olds.
Manager of the nursery Nathan Archer has lodged an official complaint after North East Lincolnshire Council sent out a revised provider agreement for settings signed up to the free entitlement, to be implemented from September.
Archer voiced concern that nurseries are being asked to change the way they deliver the free hours so that they they have to be offered as a minimum of three five hour sessions a week or five three hour sessions a week. Archer said this will leave him struggling to sustain the business.
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