The year-long battle to save Tonyrefail Nursery School, a 60-place unit in Rhonda Cynon Taf, from closure came to a head last week after the council confirmed that the nursery school will close on 31 August next year.
Nursery provision will be incorporated into the neighbouring Tonyrefail Primary School, which will be extended and refurbished for the purpose.
Local parents and nursery school staff campaigned rigorously to save the nursery school, and their efforts resulted in a deferral to the original proposed closure date of 1 September this year. The final decision was referred to the Welsh Assembly Government.
The council's proposal, published last September, stated that the need to remove surplus places or make financial savings was 'not applicable in this particular case'. It said that the 'prime consideration' was the 'achievement of the council's stated "preferred" method of delivering primary education provision, namely an "all through" Primary School, which children can attend from the age of three years, right through to the point that they transfer to secondary school'.
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