Bright Stars nursery group, formerly ICP Education, has had its childcare funding withdrawn for four of its sites in East Lothian.
The group, which re-branded this summer, operates 79 settings across Scotland and England, has been told by East Lothian Council it can no longer deliver the 1,140 funded hours at its newly acquired nurseries in Haddington and North Berwick.
The council said it had made the decision to withdraw funding for the three Pear Tree nurseries in Haddington and the Pumpkin Patch Nursery in North Berwick, which Bright Stars took over in July this year, as they ‘failed to meet the Scottish Government’s National Standards of Early Learning and Childcare’.
