Haringey Council has recently conducted a consultation on its proposed three-year corporate plan and budget. It was called 'Building A Stronger Haringey Together' – disingenuously so, because it is hard to see how many of the goals and objectives of the corporate plan will be achieved in the context of the cuts of £70m over three years which are contained in the budget.
In relation to early years, the proposals in the corporate plan include:
Yet the budget includes a spending cut of £1.44m over three years from the early years budget (of which around £2.4m per annum goes to children’s centres) and it is also proposed to remove the childcare subsidy from Haringey’s children’s centres that provide daycare (which comes from the Direct Schools Grant).
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