Nursery World - Parents fight to save centre

Campaigners are battling to save a children's centre in Cornwall from closure by the local authority, citing Government endorsement during Sure Start Children's Centre Week.

Trevu Children's Centre in Camborne faces being closed and the site soldto developers.

Sue Winter, a local parent and campaigner, said, 'It is very ironic anddeeply sad that at a time when children's centres nationally arecelebrating their achievements, our centre is effectively beingdecommissioned, despite the wonderful job it has carried out serving thefamilies of Camborne.

'Cornwall Council is hastily shoehorning the groups and services thathave been based there into unsuitable and already overstretched venuesaround the town, rather than utilising the fantastic building it alreadyhas at Trevu.'

In May, groups using the Trevu centre heard that it was to close and besold off for housing at the beginning of September.

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