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<p>Maintained Nursery Schools (MNS) make a valuable contribution to improving the
lives of some of our most disadvantaged children.</p><p>We have been providing around
£60 million per year of supplementary funding to local authorities so that they can
preserve MNS funding. We listened to concerns about the timing of the Spending Review
and therefore last week we announced that we would provide local authorities with
around £24 million of further supplementary funding, to enable them to fully fund
MNS for the whole of the 2019/20 academic year. Local authorities can feel reassured
they can allocate September 2019 places in MNS with confidence.</p><p>All expenditure
that falls in the next Spending Review period, including the additional supplementary
funding, is a matter for the Spending Review.</p><p> </p>
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