Wingfield Children’s Centre in Collindale and Newstead Children’s Centre in East Finchley, North London will have to reduce the number of weeks of childcare provision they offer to term-time only when changes to the allocation of council funding are implemented on 1 September.
Wingfield Children’s Centre will also have to cut its provision from full to part-time care following Barnet Council’s decision to remove the subsidy for childcare and re-direct funding to the ‘areas of greatest need.’
Local families campaiging against the cuts say that working parents are unlikely to sign up to the new timetable as they will have to find alternative provision in the school holidays and the discontinuity will be disruptive.
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