The Save Kent’s Children’s Centres group protested outside County Hall in Maidstone last week during the final meetings of the full council before the children’s centre consultation closes on 4 October.
The council says it needs to make savings of £1.5m on children’s centres. It has identified 16 ‘lead centres’, larger buildings in communities in which it says there is greater demand for early support services, which will co-ordinate services across smaller ‘linked centres’ under the proposal.
Hannah Arnold from Whitstable, who has two children, volunteered to set up a Save Kent’s Children’s Centres Facebook group following concerns raised about the proposal at a local parents' forum meeting in July.
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