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Corby MP speaks out over proposed Pen Green cuts
MP Tom Pursglove says promised funding for Corby children must be respected and maintained amid proposed cuts which would decimate services at the Pen Green Centre.
The Rockingham Road early years centre, which is lauded for its work with children and their families, is facing losing up to 78 per cent of its core funding with North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) instead allocating thousands of pounds to three other nurseries in a bid to make it ‘more equal’.
In a worst-case scenario its core funding level would reduce from £1,027,620 to just £228,838 – a proposal Pen Green say is savage and short-sighted.
They say the Department for Education (DfE) made an implicit arrangement in 2017 to protect the integrated services budget at the centre, which is recognised as unique because it is an intergrated centre and offers many services other maintained nurseries do not.