The word "nursery" is correct and usable in written English.
You might use it to refer to a room, place, or institution in which young children are cared for and educated, such as a preschool or daycare center. For example, "My daughter goes to a wonderful nursery school."
The answer is not for "formal" education to begin earlier, but the evidence in favour of state funding for play-based, nursery settings from the age of two – followed by a gentle transition into school life – is clear.
"I've just been singing my baby nursery rhymes, so I don't really know what's cool and what's not".
Sensibly, nursery owner Julie Lightly has invited Truss to try to cope with eight nursery children all by herself.
Meanwhile, childcare minister Liz Truss is keen to cut the numbers of staff in nursery classes.
In the weirdo Windsor nursery of 1968 – think of it as Powers in the Attic – he would have called Prince Edward clever clogs.
"Glad to be on the doorstep in Acme-shire, weere we had a good discussion about local nursery provision," is typical MP's tweet.
The nursery – which was shut at the end of March, leaving 15 pre-school children with nowhere to go – has become the focal point for protests against Barnet council's plans to demolish 400 council homes on the Dollis Valley estate, sell off the land for £11m and build a mix of private and social housing.
The cost of a part-time nursery place for a child under two has increased by 33% over the course of this parliament and now costs an average of £6,000 a year.
For the DfE, pre-election promises that the Conservatives would ringfence spending on schools – defined as spending on education from ages four to 16 – means that the pressure will be on funding for nursery and pre-school education at one end, and post-16 schooling at the other, mainly on sixth form spending.
The emphasis on capital investment, nursery places for two-year-olds and a programme to help young unemployed people were all chalked up as Lib Dem victories.
And that is because they have all been convinced by the growing wealth of evidence about the impact access to nursery care can have on a child's life chances.
