Marisa Murdoch, a TV production worker from the west end of Glasgow, has a five year-old son who is starting school this year and a one and a half year-old younger son who is in a council nursery part time.

She said nursery provision allowed her to return to work part time and was intending to return to work full time in November when her youngest turns two but has now had to reconsider her plans.

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She said: “It is frustrating to say the least. If someone had said we need to increase the fees and it will improve the service and transform the system for everyone then that would have been more acceptable.

“I’m now looking at what I will have to earn to have my son in nursery full time

“It is a service that is wonderful for so many people but it seems like someone has asked ‘where are we allowed to increase fees to raise money’.”

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Ms Murdoch said the council left families with no time to plan and said the increase was too steep.

She added”It is not fair. Everyone would be ok with a reasonable increase to improve services but for us it is an extra £250 a month.

“It came out of nowhere. You can’t just hit people with an increase like that with just two months notice.”