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On Tuesday 28 May, staff and parents of Westfield Nursery (part of Queen Mary University) were informed by the university that the nursery would be closing in under three months time.
The 18 nursery staff are set to lose their jobs. Parents are being left to scramble for alternative nursery places in a part of London where waiting lists are often much longer than 3 months. Queen Mary's own students and staff with children at the nursery face huge disruption to their study and working life, even if they can find alternative places elsewhere. The children themselves will lose friendships and stability at a critical time in their development.
Queen Mary has presented the closure as an inevitability before a formal consultation has even taken place. They plan to inform parents on the waiting list to seek alternative provision, making the closure unavoidable and making a further mockery of their supposed consultation process.