Ministers should defend funding for state-run nurseries in England or threat seeing faculties shut, Conservative MPs have warned.
Children with disabilities and particular academic wants can be amongst these most affected, they mentioned.
The faculties will lose virtually £60m a yr from 2020 except motion is taken.
The Department for Education mentioned the nurseries made a worthwhile contribution however funding choices can be made on the Spending Review.
Education choose committee chairman Robert Halfon instructed the Today programme Treasury "bean-counters" would retailer up enormous issues if the colleges weren't protected.
Conservative ministerial aide Craig Tracey and Chichester MP Gillian Keegan mentioned that they had raised the problem with ministers.
England has 400 maintained nursery faculties, that are owned and straight paid-for by the state.
They have to rent better-qualified employees than personal nurseries, and infrequently educate and care for kids with disabilities and particular schooling wants. The majority are primarily based in deprived areas.
'Huge penalties'
The Education Secretary Damian Hinds has recognized programmes run in state-run nurseries as property in enhancing social mobilitystaging a media occasion in a Luton college in Aprilhowever some are already struggling to remain open.
Carole Jacques, who runs a nursery in Norwich, mentioned they needed to telephone print firms begging for paper for kids to attract on after cash ran out.
Ministers supplied more money for the colleges from 2017 after a shake-up of funding left some nurseries fearful they might shut. But the funding complement agreed then runs out in 2020. The authorities has given no assurances about what is going to occur after this date.
Ms Jacques mentioned her college would positively shut with out the funding, as did Amanda King who runs two nursery faculties in Warwickshire.
She mentioned her faculties have been already dropping £60 a week for each little one with particular wants they accepted.
Her MP Craig Tracey mentioned there can be "huge consequences" if the colleges closed, and he did not know what would occur to kids there with particular academic wants as personal nurseries had no obligation to take them.
Gillian Keegan mentioned she was very involved, including: "2020 is only 18 months away. You need to start planning if you're not going to have a job in 18 months."
Fellow Tory MP William Wragg helps the push to take care of funding.
'No untimely choices'
Asked about the potential for closing her faculties, King mentioned: "At the end of the day if the schools close and the places aren't there I don't know where the children will go and it's hard not to feel like you've failed."
A majority of the colleges anticipate to run deficit budgets subsequent yr, based on a survey from an All Party Parliamentary Group supporting nurseries.
Labour MP Lucy Powellwho chairs the groupis to host the schooling secretary at a college in her Manchester Central constituency.
The kids's minister Nadhim Zahawi mentioned maintained nursery faculties made a worthwhile contribution and the federal government additionally supported low-income households with free childcare.
He mentioned: "I regularly meet with maintained nursery school leaders and we continue to work closely together to better understand the value these nurseries offer, so I would urge councils not to make premature decisions on the future of these nurseries as this work continues."
Decisions on future funding can be taken as a part of the subsequent Spending Review, he additionally mentioned.