Schools are being invited to bid for a share of £15 million being made available in the first round of funding to deliver up to 300 new or expanded nurseries.
Details around the first funding round have been announced this week by Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson at the Labour Party’s annual conference.
Money will be allocated to successful schools in spring next year, when the first extra places will be made available.
“Our manifesto pledged 3,000 new school-based nurseries,” Phillipson told Labour Party conference delegates in Liverpool, adding “those extra places start opening next year”.
This will be the “first phase of our new nurseries of high quality early education, boosting life chances for children and work choices for parents”, she said.
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