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Pen Green Centre facing catastrophic funding cut
Corby’s world-leading Pen Green Centre says its services would be decimated and more than 50 jobs could be lost if ‘savage’ proposals to redirect its funding go through.
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.