Inadequate nursery losing funding

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Hiya,

DS attends a school pre-school 9-12 then goes to an on-site private nursery 12-3. The nursery was rated outstanding but has recently been inspected and rated inadequate, we found this out last week.

we’ve now been told that the nursery will lose government funding from next week, meaning I won’t be able to use DS’s 30 hours for him to go there.

I would just pull him out and send him somewhere else but my issue is he loves the school preschool, I have older children who attend the school and hopefully he will start reception there next September. But the 12 o’clock pick up every day will make things really difficult. I WFH on my own business and having him at home when I work is an absolute nightmare. I also can’t really afford to pay for him to keep going without the funding, and would be frustrating to be paying for something I’m entitled to get for a lot cheaper.

Has anyone been in this situation before? What happened? I’m wondering if the nursery are likely to get the funding reinstated anytime soon or whether I’m going to have to look at moving him. We’ve been told nothing other than the funding will no longer be available as an option

thanks!

I’d speak to your local authority. They should be looking at where these children can be placed and will be able to give you some
options.

@Deadhouseplant I'm going to call them on Monday, the issue I have is I don’t want to move him from the preschool. I’m wondering if there’s any other options for funding or if anyone has been through this or knows about how things work and could tell me if the nursery is likely to get the funding reinstated

If they are, I could suck up paying for the next couple of months until the funding comes back

I must be missing something. Why would you want your child to continue to attend a nursery where the standards have slipped so far that government funding has been withdrawn?

Only the La could tell you if there’s a chance of the funding returning soon. It depends how quickly the nursery can sort out things and get OFSTED back for a regrading.

The preschool seems to be missing a trick by only offering 15 hours.

@Undisclosedlocation I get this, and my first reaction was horror and to remove him straight away. But when you read the report it seems a lot of it is to do with paperwork, and some of the staff not knowing answers to questions in the younger room. Obviously it’s still worrying but the positives on the report were all about the pre-school age room where DS is. He’s really happy there, settled, we haven’t had any issues etc so the report came as a shock to all of us parents

obviously if things don’t improve I’ll remove him but I’m hoping it’s a few small issues that can easily be resolved

@Deadhouseplant okay thank you!

yes they definitely are missing a trick with that.. they said it’s down to funding issues as they’d need more staff and the amount they’d get from the goverment wouldn’t cover the costs

I think you will continue to be funded until Christmas though?
Maybe a childminder could do the afternoon after that?