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Three-quarters of Cambridgeshire children's centres face axe

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Cambridgeshire County Council is proposing to cut its number of children's centres from 40 to ten by April 2018.

The county council, which needs to make savings of £1 million in 2018/19, is due to put out the proposals for consultation next week (17 July).

According to a draft consultation document, the remaining centres would either be used for something else or re-designated to provide additional childcare places for two, three and four-year-olds. Among those that would be re-designated is Homerton Children’s Centre, home of Homerton nursery school, which was awarded a Centre of Excellence status in 2003.

However, Cambridgeshire County Council confirmed to Nursery World that the proposals only relate to children’s centres not nursery school or childcare provision delivered at the centres.

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