Parents have now discovered that the law on education says the decision to close the nurseries will need the consent of the Scottish Government, because the nurseries are more than 80% full. This has already been raised by parents but Glasgow City Council officers denied it was the case.
Now the Cabinet Secretary for Education [...]
You’ll be aware that this Wed, 18th March, is the last day of the consultation process.
To mark this, we will be formally handing in the petitions we have collected throughout this campaign at the City Chambers. Councillors have been invited to receive them.
We hope that as many parents (with children) as possible will join [...]
A big thank you to all who made Saturday’s march such a success. Special thanks are due to Nicola Sturgeon for her presence and rousing words at the end, the police for supervising the walk, to Cllrs Meikle, Hunter and Malik for their presence and all who volunteered as stewards/first aiders.
Thanks also to all those [...]
Photos from today’s march. Thanks to all who made it a big success!
Make it a family day out, as you support our campaign to Save our Nurseries.
Meet at 1330hrs, outside Nithsdale Road Nursery.
We will walk the 1.5 mile route along Nithsdale Road to the Pollokshields Primary School Annexe on Melville Street.
En route, we will join forces with the Newark Drive Nursery supporters to complete the final distance to Melville Street.
Fun activities have been [...]
Look out for a story in The Extra on Thursday 12th about the Save Our Nurseries video, the ongoing council meetings and the march on Saturday.
Our ‘Save our Nurseries’ video is featured on page 9 of today’s Evening Times.
You can read the article online here:
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2492754.0.0.php
Mandy Benhach at Newark Drive Nursery has provided the following suggestions for our response sheets, based on our main arguments from meetings and discussions. Remember that as many
people you know can submit a response, the more the better!
Download: Main points for response sheet.pdf
Full text follows…
REASON 1 (Based on education in our special community)
I [...]
Wei Ling at Nithsdale Road Nursery has provided the following model response letter - please download and use this to write to Margaret Doran…
You may be aware that, although the consultation papers state that both Newark Drive and Nithsdale Road nursery buildings were a condition C, we have found out that they are both a condition B. This is a fundamental error as one of the main reasons for the proposed nursery closures were the poor building conditions. [...]
This summer, Glasgow City Council wants to close Newark Drive, Nithsdale Road and Pollokshields Nurseries and move all the children to a new 'early years centre' on the site of the former Pollokshields Primary School Annexe building.
We believe 'Proposal 21' is bad for Pollokshields children and families – please help us Save Our Nurseries.
