South Holland’s Labour candidate campaigns to save Sure Start

Gareth Gould, Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for South Holland & The Deepings, sent his petition to protect local Sure Start Children’s Centres to Conservative MP John Hayes on Saturday.

Having collected signatures of residents close to the Sure Start Centres at Banks Avenue, Spalding, and Willoughby Avenue, Market Deeping, and in Holbeach & Spalding town centres in recent weeks, Mr. Gould is highlighting the threat posed to the centres by potential Tory cuts of £200 million to the national Sure Start budget.

“That means closure for one in five Children’s Centres across the country – 10 in Lincolnshire, one in South Holland & The Deepings.