Salford City Council is proposing that services currently provided by eight main children’s centre sites, with a further seven linked sites, are centralised into four main ‘hubs’ in five centres in Little Hulton, Winton, Broughton, Langworthy Cornerstones and Swinton.
The centres would be closed over a three-year period under the plans.
Parents have set up several protest groups to campaign against the closure of their local centres, including the Fight the Closure of our Surestart Centres group for the Irlam and Cadishead centres.
Sue Eden Campayne, a campaigner for the group and mother of two young children, (pictured on the left), said closing both centres would leave her local area two bus rides away from their nearest hub.
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