The Positive Steps nursery at East Durham College, which provides childcare for more than 75 families in Peterlee, will close on 17 December because the nursery lost £100,000 in the 2009/10 financial year. The college runs another nursery at another campus, which is unaffected by the closure, but is full.
Parents fighting the closure say they were not consulted by the college and were only told of the plan to shut the nursery earlier this month.
They say nursery management were only recently told the nursery was losing money and that more could have been done to save the nursery.
Some families told Nursery World they will have to give up jobs because they cannot find space in another nursery.
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