{"id":316943,"date":"2025-08-04T10:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316943\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:51:20","slug":"end-of-review-into-future-of-leeds-nurseries-bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316943\/","title":{"rendered":"End of review into future of Leeds nurseries &#8220;bittersweet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council is transferring the Rothwell and Chapeltown sites to private providers, which the authority said would eventually save \u00a3500,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new operators will sign 10-year leases for the buildings and rent them for a combined cost of \u00a372,000 per year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 5% fee increase was also expected to raise \u00a378,000 per year across the remaining authority controlled sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Shepherds Lane centre, in Chapeltown, is to be taken over by Sunshine Community Nursery, which is rated as an &#8220;outstanding&#8221; provider by Ofsted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Rothwell nursery, on Cornwall Crescent, will be run by Sweet Peas Day Care and Teaching, which has a &#8220;good&#8221; rating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the reassurances provided by the review&#8217;s outcome, Mr Wood said parents feared the nurseries could be targeted again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They have been salami slicing Little Owls for years, so there is so much uncertainty that still hangs over us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unless council budgets are rectified, nurseries are an easy target.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council is transferring the Rothwell and Chapeltown sites to private providers, which the authority said would eventually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-316943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114970118231135294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}