window.dotcom = window.dotcom || { cmd: [] }; window.dotcom.ads = window.dotcom.ads || { resolves: {enabled: [], getAdTag: []}, enabled: () => new Promise(r => window.dotcom.ads.resolves.enabled.push(r)), getAdTag: () => new Promise(r => window.dotcom.ads.resolves.getAdTag.push(r)) }; setTimeout(() => { if(window.dotcom.ads.resolves){ window.dotcom.ads.resolves.enabled.forEach(r => r(false)); window.dotcom.ads.resolves.getAdTag.forEach(r => r("")); window.dotcom.ads.enabled = () => new Promise(r => r(false)); window.dotcom.ads.getAdTag = () => new Promise(r => r("")); console.error("NGAS load timeout"); } }, 5000)
Skip to content

'National Insurance rise may force us to close'

Dave Harvey
Business and Environment Correspondent, BBC West
BBC A group of women and children sitting together at a nursery in Somerset. A little girl with curly blonde hair is having it styled by a brunette womanBBC
Katryn Bennett says she faces a £35,000 increase in National Insurance costs

Charities and childcare nurseries say they are furious that they face increases in their National Insurance bills, but are also powerless to raise their incomes.

From 6 April almost all employers will pay higher National Insurance Contributions (NICs) for staff, something the government says is necessary to fund public services.

But charities and some nurseries say that, unlike businesses, they cannot increase their prices.

"It's totally unfair" said Katryn Bennett, who owns a children's nursery.

She added: "If this treatment continues, people like myself will quit".

The government insisted it has taken "the necessary decisions on tax to stabilise the public finances".

When I dropped in on the Acorn Day Nursery in Somerton, Somerset, it was hairdressing time.

"How would madam like her hair today":[]}