JacquieL Posted February 19, 2012 Posted February 19, 2012 Cut backs have led the Isle of Man Government to the decision to close all their maintained pre-schools loosing 500 places and 20 jobs. They have never had universal funded places as we do in the UK. They will be providing vouchers for families on very low incomes to be able to buy a 2.5 place in a PVI setting, but otherwise parents will have to pay if they wish for a pre-school place in a PVI setting. Lots of sympathy from me if you are a member from the IOM working in a maintained setting.
Lyanne Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 Oh, that's awful for the staff, children and parents :-( It looks like the equivalent of nursery classes are what's going? But I'm guessing that the preschools are not going to have the physical room to take on 500 extra children even if they can take on the staff that will be jobless.
JacquieL Posted February 20, 2012 Author Posted February 20, 2012 Sorry, yes they call their nurseries and nursery classes pre-schools on the IOM.
Rea Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 Birmingham closed all their community day nurseries last year, staff were redeployed throughout the CCs but I cant see how they will have found jobs for everyone. Lots of families will have been affected, they were usually in deprived areas and at least two I worked at were the only provision in the area. It annoys me because the council still put 100s of planters and hanging baskets around the city throughout the year.
catma Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 It's just so sad. Just another example of how the ones that suffer in this time of austerity are not those who recieve the large bonuses. Cx
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