For some pre-schools, the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative (NNI) helped them to secure their future and expand their services. Now they are embracing the challenges posed by the Government's ten-year strategy and 22 have so far been designated children's centres.
Sunshine Corner Neighbourhood Nursery, Aylesham, Kent Sunshine Corner Neighbourhood Nursery and Out of School Club opened in 2004. It operates from a purpose-built building in the grounds of Aylesham Primary School in a deprived, former mining area of east Kent and has been chosen as a satellite children's centre.
'We offered sessional care and then moved to offering a lunch club and then an after-school club,' says centre manager Sara Garrity. 'We have a maintained nursery next door and we used to collect the children from the nursery and bring them to us for the lunch club and for the afternoon.
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