Tag Archives: Selhurst Nursery

Town centres to get small grants for undecided ‘improvements’

The council is beginning a set of projects “to transform” (their words) five of the borough’s district centres with funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. But the money – £833,000 – will be spread very thinly between the five … Continue reading

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After six months doing nothing, Perry sets nurseries’ deadline

Two of Croydon’s maintained nurseries are to be forced to find a primary school or academy partner by the end of this year, or face closure by the Conservative-controlled council. That’s the recommendation for Selhurst Nursery and Crosfield Nursery, following … Continue reading

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Council drops nursery closures after 95% of public oppose plan

The council says it has abandoned its cost-cutting plans to close or merge the borough’s five maintained nursery schools, after 95% of responses in a public consultation rejected Tory Mayor Jason Perry’s closure proposals. But parents and campaigners still fear … Continue reading

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Hundreds turn out to protest against plan to close nurseries

Children as young as three or four are being threatened with the consequences of the crass mismanagement of the local council and the failed £1bn property gamble by the borough’s biggest land-owners. By education correspondent GENE BRODIE It was all … Continue reading

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Save Crosfield and Selhurst nurseries, SNCK, Sep 30

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Perry’s cost-cutting puts five nursery schools under threat

KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on the Mayor’s latest ‘short-sighted short-termism’ that will yet again see residents paying more to get less Jason Perry, the Conservative Mayor of Croydon who put up the borough’s Council Tax by 15per cent … Continue reading

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