500 signatures reached
To: Oxfordshire County Council
Save Oxfordshire's Children's Centres!
Keep the Childrens' Centres open in Oxfordshire.
Why is this important?
Andrew Smith MP sums it up brilliantly:
“It would be socially damaging and a false economy if more children and young people are held back in deprivation and troubled lives as a result, because the long term human and economic costs of that are huge.”
Please do not shut our childrens' centres, they are invaluable resources in our troubled times, and to remove them will cause even more suffering and hardship for those already most in need.
The council has agreed to reduce its £16m budget for children’s centres and early intervention hubs by 2018. It is part of savings of £284m planned, but Councillors say more may be needed in the face of further Government cuts expected next year.
(source:Oxford Mail, 16th June 2015.)
