The Education Minister is hopeful there WILL be enough private operators in place to take over government run pre-schools this autumn.
Plans are progressing to transfer the units into private ownership from September and in the House of Keys this week, Peter Karran revealed 16 expressions of interest had been received.
However, he also admitted there had been no bids at all for two nurseries in the north of the Island.
That doesn’t concern him at this stage.

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