One of first free childcare nurseries may have to close doors

For many parents here, just getting a nursery place in the capital was hard enough

One of the first nurseries to offer the Scottish government’s free childcare scheme may now have to close its doors, leaving almost 30 families in Edinburgh with no support.

Staff at Leith St Andrews playgroup now only have a few months left to find a new home before their current building is sold off, but with nearby nurseries full, they fear there’s no where for the children to go.

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