Tunstall Nursery School is a Maintained Nursery School, one of five in Croydon. These are local authority-run schools that provide early years education and childcare to children aged two to four during school hours, usually 8.30am – 3.30pm during term time. They must function like a school and employ a headteacher, special educational needs coordinator, qualified teachers and meet the same standards and requirements as schools. 

Croydon Council and its Maintained Nursery Schools have been working together to look at ways of reducing spend. The council is now looking at all options to make the schools financially sustainable. 

Click here for an article from Nursery World that considers the issues involved https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/article/long-read-trying-to-hang-on-to-nursery-schools

Click here for more information and make your response by 11.59pm, Tuesday 17 October https://www.getinvolved.croydon.gov.uk/mns