Posts Tagged ‘childcare’
Hackney Council admits to unlawful consultation over children’s centre closures
Sebright and Fernbank shutdowns staved off after consultation is quashed
Read More‘Unfair and unlawful’: Campaigners take council to court over children’s centres consultation
‘We have been clear that we would fight tooth and nail to try to keep these valuable services’
Read MoreHackney MP defends mayor and council over plans to shut two children’s centres
Hackney South Meg Hillier met with parents at Sebright, one of the centres under threat
Read More‘Groundhog Day’: Parents fighting to save two children’s centres hit out at council’s ‘tick-box’ consultation
Campaigners say the Town Hall has offered no ‘plan B’ to shutting Fernbank and Sebright centres
Read More‘We need a push’: Beloved adventure playground launches crowdfunder for ‘unique’ new fence
Shakespeare Walk, recently crowned London’s best adventure playground, needs to replace its crumbling perimeter
Read More‘Absurd’: Parents and unions slam council over plans to cut children’s centres
Campaigners hit out at ‘baffling’ consultation process
Read More‘Hands off our nurseries’: Parents kick off new battle against council plans to close children’s centres
Two centres that won a reprieve in 2021 following a hard-fought campaign are again at risk
Read MoreParents and nursery workers to be consulted on need for low-cost childcare
Council casts spotlight on affordability
Read MoreParents urge Town Hall to completely scrap plans to close two children’s centres after they were ‘put on pause’
The council yesterday called a halt to the proposals until it has undertaken a wider review of its early years provision
Read More‘Devastated’ parents fight plans to shut two children’s centres – with 109 affordable childcare places at risk
Early years boss says there is ‘no other way’ as council tries to find £1m in savings
Read MoreSusanna’s Manners
Our resident food historian on 17th-century childcare, from high chairs ‘built like battleships’ to ‘fearsome’ baby walkers
Read MoreFoster carer who has helped over 200 Hackney children talks of pride in her ‘extended family’
“My greatest achievement is seeing how the children I looked after have moved on, having turned their lives around”
Read MoreChildcare provision in Hackney slammed as ‘insufficient’
A new report by the Family and Childcare Trust reveals a lack of quality childcare facilities in Hackney
Read MoreCould you adopt a child?
More adoptive families needed to provide loving homes
Read MoreHackney Council promises action on poverty wages
Hackney Citizen investigation prompts Town Hall to review policy on advertising jobs that fail to meet the London Living Wage
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