Kenyon

Ms Kenyon says, on one hand, the government is telling parents they can expect cheaper bills, but she believes they are not paying enough to nurseries to provide them.

Claire Kenyon, the owner, says she is considering capping the amount of funded hours people can use, or pulling out of the scheme altogether, because she cannot balance the books.

However, Ms Kenyon says some nurseries have been using these payments as a way to subsidise the funding for three and four-year-olds, and that more than 5,000 nurseries have now signed an open letter to the Dfe asking for the new rules to be delayed.

Ms Kenyon says she will have to pay an additional £200,000 a year in staff costs from April.

Through the fan community she has become friends with Brenda Kenyon, who owns the house which is used on screen as Stacey's family home.