Cuts threaten all Birmingham council's nurseries

All of the council-run nurseries in Britain's second-largest city are under threat of closure as the local authority plans to slash the budget for early years by £1.45m from April.
02-02-2010

Birmingham City Council's 23 stand-alone community day nurseries are most at risk, with more than 200 nursery staff facing redundancy.
The council plans to move its daycare services from these nurseries into children's centres.
Public sector union Unison said the plan has the potential to close all of the city's council-run nurseries and could result in redundancies for all 214 nursery staff working in maintained settings.

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