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What next for those who won capital funding to extend their settings before September? – and for the many who did not get a grant, what other options are there? asks Karen Faux

At Sunflowers Day Nursery in Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, children are thrilled by the sight of cement mixers, diggers and lorries arriving daily on site. But while expansion plans for the 30 hours per week of funded childcare are going full steam ahead, for manager Heather Clark-Kelly, the journey so far has been stressful.

Sunflowers’ new extension has been made possible with the help of £63,000 in grant funding from the Department for Education, and it will create an additional 28 places for the ‘Outstanding’ nursery. After submitting its bid to a tight schedule in August 2016, Ms Clark-Kelly heard in December that her setting was the only one in North Yorkshire to be successful.

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