So that’s it, the end of the 1st stage of this fight- thanks to everyone who completed the consultation survey! But we’re not going anywhere until Hackney Council Caroline Woodley listen to #Hackney residents who are united in rejecting Children’s Centre closures. Watch this space!

Are you involved in a campaign to stop the closure of a council-run nursery/maintained #nursery school or Children’s Centre? If so, please get in touch! Particularly keen to hear from you if you are up against a The Labour Party council! Please retweet! #childcare #EarlyYears #SaveMNS

We’re grateful for the support of Antoinette Fernandez, Hackney Green Party candidate for #DeBeauvoir by-election & #LondonAssembly. She took the time to attend our demo & meet with residents opposing #Hackney Children’s Centre closures👇Still no word from Sem Moema AM 🌹🐝💪🏾 The Labour Party GLA candidate

🥳 Very happy with the CYP Scrutiny committee’s excoriating formal response to Hackney Council’s proposals to close or privatise #Hackney’s Children’s Centres! Thanks to Cllr Alastair Binnie-Lubbock 💚🌍 🍉 (he/they) Sophie Conway (she/her) & others for their work on this. Read: hackney.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s882… Hackney Citizen 1/3

It’s sad that we have to resort to legal action but we are left with no choice. We must protect these vital services at all costs & if Hackney Council Caroline Woodley won’t fight to save our children’s centres then #Hackney’s residents will do so. Huge thanks to Rook Irwin Sweeney Alex Rook!

Our legal challenge to Hackney Council over their unfair consultation on #Hackney’s Children’s Centre closures makes the front page of the Hackney Citizen! 🥳 Rook Irwin Sweeney

HUGE NEWS!! Hackney Council have conceded that the consultation on Children’s Centre closures was *unlawful* so WE WON OUR CASE!!🎉 THANK YOU to all our supporters for helping us to achieve this huge victory! And to our legal team💪🏻 Rook Irwin Sweeney Steve Broach KC rookirwinsweeney.co.uk/hackney-counci…

Delighted for our clients - superb work by Rook Irwin Sweeney and Jake Thorold Hackney will need to consult again before making any changes to childcare provision in their children’s centres

*Much more to follow* but for now huge thanks to Diane Abbott Cllr Alastair Binnie-Lubbock 💚🌍 🍉 (he/they) Liam Davis @ Labour Hackney South & Shoreditch Women's Branch Zoë Garbett Antoinette Fernandez Single Parent Rights Apsana Begum MP lemn sissay OBE FRSL HackneyUNISON 🇵🇸 Hackney NEU Hackney Green Party Hackney Liberal Democrats @PregnantScrewed Joeli Brearley for your support

Congratulations to all the campaigners at SaveFernbankNursery! #SaveOurNurseries

Second time Hackney Council has put staff, children and families through an extended period of uncertainty whilst a debacle of a 'consultation' has been conducted. Qs need to be answered about how this has happened again. Caroline Woodley Mayor of Hackney rookirwinsweeney.co.uk/hackney-counci…

🎇Great news for the Hackney Children Centre nurseries, staff and children! But shame on Hackney Council for putting them through this. It is disgustingly underhand that they refused to publish the external consultants full report.

Hackney: High Court case over closure of nurseries dropped - BBC News l bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Our campaign’s win against Hackney Council was featured on the BBC London tonight! So proud at what we’ve achieved but so angry & sad that it took legal action to make the council listen to residents. Caroline Woodley must now commit to safeguarding #Hackney’s Children’s Centres!

SaveFernbankNursery Hackney Council BBC London Caroline Woodley Save Hillside Nursery N16 SaveOurSebright HackneyUNISON 🇵🇸 Hackney NEU Rook Irwin Sweeney Steve Broach KC Hackney Green Party Cllr Alastair Binnie-Lubbock 💚🌍 🍉 (he/they) Zoë Garbett The authorities can be so intransigent. What you have achieved to get this result is momentous 🎉

.Diane Abbott thank you for standing with us and our kid. Will Hackney Council , Caroline Woodley now stand up for our children too and commit to save our children's centres?

‘Failed experiment’: Dalston councillor challenges London mayor to bring in rent controls #Hackney #London #housing #rent @NELondonLDR hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/11/08/fai…

"Hackney Council admits to unlawful consultation over children’s centre closures" - our clients' successful judicial review covered by Hackney Citizen this week hackneycitizen.co.uk/2024/11/06/hac…

This is the kind of cold, callous, inadequate & disrespectful comms sent out by Hackney Council officers to #Hackney’s hardworking Children’s Centre staff at affected centres who have been living with the possibility of losing their jobs for months/years for Fernbank. Shameful.

The story of how parent campaigners and childcare workers joined forces to open community nurseries and children’s centres during the 1970s and 80s is told through a new website that maps childcare activism in London. nurseryworld.co.uk/content/news/n…