Staff at two nurseries belonging to New College Lanarkshire have been told they will close in a few weeks.
The early years centres at both the Coatbridge and Cumbernauld campuses will shut their doors for the final time at the end of the current term as the college looks to cut costs.
The college’s board claim that funding is down by £4.3million in real terms for the next financial year, and that in the last three years a total of more than £1million in additional funding has had to be found for nursery provision.