Nursery World - Sure Start parent campaigners join unions to launch national childcare campaign

A group of local parents who protested over cuts to children's centres in Manchester has joined forces with unions and voluntary organisations to launch a national childcare campaign.

The group is holding a conference in Manchester next month to launch the National Childcare Campaign Network.

A decision to set up a network grew out of the National Sure Start Conference held in Manchester in January.

The group’s secretary John Clegg told Nursery World, ‘The initial impetus came from cuts to Sure Start children’s centres and the backlash from parents. We’ve now moved on from cuts to provision to looking at something more radical.’

He added, ‘One of the key things we are campaigning on is the level of inequality. Children from families on low to middle-incomes are less likely to have access to high-quality childcare and yet we have the highest childcare costs in the world.’

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