[Radical_childcare] [Fwd: [Anarchafeminists] Fw: URGENT Wherever you live, help defend Hackney's nurseries]

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Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Fw: URGENT Wherever you live, help defend
Hackney's nurseries
From:    "Gail Chester" <gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk>
Date:    Tue, April 20, 2010 5:25 pm
To:      anarchafeminists at lists.aktivix.org
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From: Friends of Hackney Nurseries
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Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:10 AM
Subject: [HackneySolidarityNetwork] URGENT Wherever you live, help defend
Hackney's nurseries




Please forward to interested people



Apologies for short notice -- we have only just heard that about these
huge cuts to nursery budgets in Hackney, and we want to mobilise people to
help try and save them, so we are organising an emergency public meeting
THIS THURSDAY 22ND APRIL 6:30 P.M. -- further details below.  It is
outrageous that Hackney Council/The Learning Trust should think that they
can get away with attacking services to women and working-class people in
this way, and just before the election.

We have local elections in Hackney, including for our elected mayor, as
well as the General Election.  Even if you don't live in Hackney, you can
bring this up at any hustings meetings you go to, because this is part of
a nationwide problem, and the Daycare Trust just published a report saying
that childcare issues are almost the most important voting issue for women

 now there's a surprise!

If you would like to help, but cannot make this week's meeting, please
send us an e-mail -- FHN at live.co.uk.

Thanks, Friends of Hackney Nurseries

(After successfully fighting against huge cuts to council and community
nurseries in the 1990s and early 2000s, Friends of Hackney Nurseries is
being re-activated to fight against Hackney Council and the Learning
Trust's plan to impose cuts of upto 60% in this year's grant to community
nurseries, and indeed to fight for even more and better childcare
provision locally. JOIN US!)

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Media release -- 20th April 2010, for immediate release

>From Friends of Hackney Nurseries, FHN at live.co.uk



Just a couple of weeks before the election, Hackney Council and the
Learning Trust have delivered a devastating blow to Hackney's community
nurseries



Despite Diane Abbott telling us in her election address that "Only a
Labour government will protect our schools, hospitals and public
services", community nurseries have been told in the last few days that,
with immediate effect, they will be having cuts in their budget of up to
60%.  This means cuts of £40 to £50,000, which will lead to the serious
threat of nursery closures, and hardship and distress for parents, workers
and children.



Jules Pipe, who is standing for re-election as Labour mayor of Hackney,
has been boasting recently that “For the fifth year in a row Hackney’s
part of the Council Tax will not increase," and he claims that "Investment
in services for Hackney residents is at the heart of spending plans for
the coming financial year – at no extra cost to the tax payer."



The people of Hackney would like to know how he can square this with the
devastation that is threatened to our nurseries. The withdrawal of public
funds will affect all nurseries, and consequently our children's
opportunities will be diminished, and nursery staff will have to spend
valuable time struggling for their financial survival. Hackney's nurseries
have always fought to remain inclusive, affordable, and professional, but
it is impossible to achieve that by relying on parents' fees alone to meet
all the costs.





Dawn Primarolo, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families,
said recently, "We are spending a billion pounds a year on early years
education, and even in these tough times we have said we will sustain this
over the next three years, because that's how crucial we think excellent
early years provision is for children and families, and for our economy."
In which case, we would like to know why our share of the money is not
coming to Hackney’s nurseries.




Friends of Hackney Nurseries is organising an emergency meeting to
campaign against these cuts. If you want to help us defend good quality,
affordable childcare in the borough, for our children now, and for future
generations, please come to our meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 22nd
April at The Bath House Children's Community Centre, The Old Warm Baths,
76 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EY.  You can contact Friends of Hackney
Nurseries at fhn at live.co.uk


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