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A national census of school and nursery pupils is due to take place on Thursday. The government has insisted that only those attending are counted at nurseries, while schools are permitted to count all registered pupils, including those learning from home. Official government guidance is for all nurseries is to stay open during the latest national coronavirus lockdown.
Brighton and Hove City Council went against this advice and closed all its nurseries on Thursday 7 January to all but vulnerable children and the children of key workers. The council’s head of early years and family support Caroline Parker told a meeting of the Schools Forum yesterday that it would affect funding this term and next term.
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THE introduction of charges by local authorities has created a middle-class culture of music education with costs to families per year typically reaching over £700, a new study has revealed. While children and young people from poor or working class households in Scotland are increasingly excluded from instrumental music education those from more affluent families were more able to afford it, or by going private, seeking alternatives out of school, according to the University of Strathclyde study. It revealed that one typical family was forking out £415 a year plus travel costs on top of the local authority-imposed costs of lessons of £295. Across Scotland fees can be as high as £524.