London nursery
Socialist Press1980 1980-03-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Sit-in On Friday • 6 March parents occupied Nightingale Lane Day Nursery in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Knowing that a demonstration was planned for 4 p.m. the Matron tried to forestall any struggle by removing the children from the Nursery at lunchtime.
But in her rush and panic a window. was left open and parents were able to gain entrance legally and start their occupation.
The decision of Wandsworth Social Services Committee to close the Day Nursery was made in November 1979.
Parents were advised by letter of the decision, which was rubber-stamped two weeks later. The reason for closing, they were told, was that the building -which is leased by the Council -was "no longer suitable" for a Day Nursery.
Private nursery
Parents were therefore amazed and perplexed to find that two applications for the lease (which the Council has renewed for three years) were from individuals planning to run -would you believe-a private day nursery!
The parents occupied Night: ingale Lane Nursery the night before the social services meeting as a token gesture but that didn't deter them in their closure plan. • Since November the nursery which has full facilities for 56 children and had an attendance of 44 children prior to the closure decision, has been deliberately run down, to leave only four children on the day of