This is a portal page which contains links to other websites, forums, petitions .... which relate to the campaign to save childcare provision at the University of Sussex.
Teddy Bears' Picnic this Thursday Feb 25th at 1pm, to coincide with a University management meeting where the future of childcare services at Sussex will be discussed.
The aim is to raise awareness and support for keeping the creche and nursery as part of the University, rather than closing or privatising them.
PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT BY COMING ALONG WITH YOUR CHILDREN!
We will meet in front of Bramber House at 1pm (by the postbox) and walk from there to Sussex House where the meeting is taking place.
Don't forget your picnic blankets and teddy bears!
Report to the University Management, Senate and Council Produced by the ‘Save Childcare at the University of Sussex’ (SCUS) Parents’ group 25th February 2010
Sussex University Creche and Nursery offer an outstanding service to parents on campus, be they students or staff. They are currently threatened with closure by University management, either in their present form (by being privately outsourced) or outright (by being shut down altogether). At present, childcare provision is subsidised by the University; management are no longer prepared to continue doing so.
Yet having decent childcare on campus is a major enabler of student parents to pursue their degrees; it also allows staff to return to work relatively early, thereby saving the University from having to find maternity replacements. The provision of good childcare is a major consideration for prospective or current parents, when choosing to accept a job or a place at a University. Without it, the University's stated commitments both to gender equality and to attracting the best faculty and students look undermined.
Parents are committed to working with staff to find effective cost-cutting measures to keep the Creche and Nursery open.
For further information and to give your support please go to the links in the right hand column.
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