CYP Now - General election: Nurseries join forces for newspaper advert highlighting funding crisis

More than 360 childcare providers have paid for a national newspaper advert to warn of underfunding in the early years sector.

Nurseries in deprived areas are most affected by like of funding. Picture: Adobe Stock

The partnership, called We Care About Children, has also launched a campaign website where the advert and a list of those providers participating can be viewed in full.

The advert details the effect of funding pressures on nurseries, which have forced around 500 to close already this year, according to official Ofsted figures.

Closures in areas of deprivation are a particular concern raised by the campaign group.

These closures are “leaving thousands of children and their parents without appropriate or adequate facilities and it is devastating that the settings struggling the most are in the most deprived areas. It is already too late for many of those”, states the group’s newspaper advert.

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