City MP's delight at new school-based nursery for Doncaster
A Doncaster MP has spoken of his delight after a school in his constituency will get a new school based nursery.
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough MP John Healey has welcomed the news that Conisbrough’s Castle Academy has been included in Labour’s next phase of school-based nurseries.
Classrooms will be converted into top quality early years spaces, increasing nursery provision for local young children aged up to four years old from September.
A further 331 schools across the country have been successful in applying for a share of £45 million of funding to build or expand nurseries on their site.
The new Best Start nurseries will create over 6,000 more childcare places, on top of the up to 7,000 already being delivered from the first phase of the programme, which included St Alban’s Primary in Denaby.
Combined with Labour’s 30 hours of funded childcare, Best Start nurseries are cutting childcare costs for working families, making the school run simpler with fewer drop offs during busy mornings, and helping parents return to work.
Mr Healey said: “The cost of living for families across Doncaster is at the forefront of my mind – that’s why the news that childcare costs have halved under Labour is so welcome.
“There’s more we can do to make childcare more accessible and affordable. That’s why I am so pleased to see Castle Academy join the Best Start scheme and open up a new nursery.
“We’re seeing the benefits of a Labour MP working with a Labour government, to back our schools with funding, back our families with support and give children growing up in Conisbrough the best start in life.”