An Isle of Wight nursery has announced that it will have to close after 25 years, due to a low intake of children and government funding.
Springhill Pre-School in East Cowes, run by the charity Springhill Pre-School Committee, will not reopen in September after reaching the ‘sad conclusion’ that it is no longer sustainable.
Trustees of the privately-run pre-school have met with parents, staff and town councillors in the last 2 weeks, to share the news.
A spokesperson for the preschool said staff and trustees would like to thank everyone involved for their support, but added the preschool was not sustainable. They have put the closure down to a number of contributing factors, including the impact of COVID-19, low government funding rates and a drop in the number of school-age children on the Island.
East Cowes councillor, Karl Love, said the pre-school had been in a difficult situation for some time, with only 17 children attending the term-time nursery, Monday to Friday, from 09:00 to 15:00. He said the situation reached tipping point when only 8 children were enrolled to start in September. He added it was a sad time and fears, with the Island’s birthrate falling, other preschools and mainstream schools will face similarly difficult decisions moving forward.
There had been hopes in previous years that the Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth would buy the premises and take over the site for the benefit of the adjacent Holy Cross Catholic Primary School. Hopes the building would then be let to the charity, for the pre-school, were not been realised.
The Diocese said it was sorry to hear the pre-school closed as it was highly valued by Holy Cross but like many pre-schools was impacted by falling birth rates.
Government cuts have made it impossible to run a day nursery at a price parents can afford.
Yes because £80 a month child tax credit towards childcare that it about £30 a day is super helpful. Working full time you’ll pay over half of your wages to childcare on a minimum wage job. But yes it’s the Netflix subscription pudding people over the edge.
Rubbish. You are taking about JUST child Allowance which is £80 a month per child
The poster is saying that AS WELL as that parents get hundreds in working TAX CREDITS and CHILD TAX CREDITS per week AND they get some of the child care paid for as well! Along with heavily subsidised rent c tax and free dentistry and all prescriptions paid for plus EXTRA help with heating and food, school trips meals and uniforms.
So not asking too much to buy their own cool bag is it?
Read and get Facts right as the gullible believes mis information
I believe your information might be out dated as tax credits is a thing of the past now and everyone is to be moved to universal credit, which leaves most with less.
People who earn just above the allowance for this are the ones who suffer as they won’t get the help and will be worse off than those on benefits . So it’s them I was referring to. Universal credit is helping to get people into work by paying 80% of childcare up to a point.
not once did I mention people buying their own supplies, just the base cost of childcare.
Mrs T is another regular troll. Doubt they are even a Mrs. Their comments are so ludicrously OTT that there is a good chance they are false flagging by pretending to be the worst of the worst kind of gammon/Karen.
Again lamentable moderation from IE.
It is YOU who are wrong. You can earn up to £50,000 p.a and STILL claim U/C.
Many many people are still on tax credits and will be for another 4 years, the changeover is slow and new people are put on Universal Credit but the payment is often even MORE than tax credit.
Clearly those earning huge sums don’t need it anyway, and those on fairly good wages still qualify and then can claim the subsidised rent and council tax still, and get extra heat allowance and cost of living allowance and the free NHS dentistry and perscriptions. FACT.
All can afford a £5 cool bag and a ice pack to put in it, IF they haven’t squandered their benefit on longer nails and eyelashes.
Trolls gotta troll, I’m afraid.
Honestly, I fail to understand how IE can implement pre-moderation yet allow blatant and obvious trolling like this to get through.
Are you perhaps the troll as implying that parents spend all there money with little regard to their children? That they are the ones who don’t care about education? The real issue is the current cost of living crisis and the amount that you can actually buy for your money.
Sorry I thought that you were country-love my mistake I agree with you 100%
Smiff, Mrs T so often speaks the truth, hence is unpopular by those that are either naive or those knowing she is correct and on to their scams, scrounging or dishonesty.
The truth hurts so calling someone saying such a Troll is the same as calling someone racist when they question the wisdom of mass immigration.
So by using such names poster who are ‘offended’ by the truth then hope to get posters speaking such banned.
Echo is wiser than that thank goodness.
Remember ‘Just because what I say ‘offends you’ does not necessarily mean what I say is wrong.
Totally agree, the government would be better off making contraception mandatory, why should struggling workers have to pay for the offspring of feckless parents who seem to view them as some sort of cash source.
Put simply, if you can’t afford to bring your offspring up then don’t have any.
Because then we would have the issues that china has come to face with a population that cannot sustain its self or look after the elderly as there isn’t enough young people due to the one child laws. Stopping people having children all together would collapse our economy.
Two people working full time does not equate to one person working full time 50 years ago. There is also a lot more costs that come with raising a child these days, such as school uniform costs. Inflation impacts everything.
These spongers young can’t even look after themselves as their parents can’t do so for them, so WHAT hope they will EVER be looking after the elderly OR paying in taxes, more likely to do as the parents and TAKE from the pot
Fully agree as well.
IF I Choose to own a horse, or a dog, I would not expect everyone else to fund MY choice.
And, if the Government paid me £20 per week horse allowance, AND one hundred pounds a week AS WELL in horse tax credits, then I would not have the nerve or neck to then expect them to fund the schooling or dog training lessons AS WELL, as THAT is what the money is for, and YOU and your partner should work more to pay the rest, not expect others to keep it.
No wonder the country is in a mess
Enrol not enroll.
Sad the nursery has to close.
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