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Communities won't take the closure of nurseries and childrens centres.

concerned resident | 25-12-2012 19:00 | Education | Health | Public sector cuts | Sheffield

Around 100 parents and children under 5 arrived from Tinsley Green children's centre. Another 50 joined the protest from Darnall Community Nursery.

In total at least 250 protested outside Sheffield Town Hall against the Labour council's planned slashing of Sure Start children's centres and nurseries.

The council is aiming to cut £3.5m from these centres. Currently there are 36 centres, all Ofsted registered and providing childcare, health, education and family support. All would be downgraded.

Instead the aim is to have 17 children's centre 'areas', with each area having only one nursery. The council calls its proposals a 'redesign' and incredibly has claimed that the service will improve, reaching more children.

Yet, at the same time, it blames the government for forcing the cuts on it - thereby implying that the service will suffer.

19 of the 36 centres have been earmarked for closure. Five of the seven centres that received an 'outstanding' grade from Ofsted last year are amongst those under threat.

Many nursery workers and parents have been told that their centres will be closed by March 2013 at the latest.

Yet the council is saying that there will be no closures. What it means is that it will use all the sites for something - it's just that 19 of them won't have childcare services!



sharon milson

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The Earth Needs Rebels

ANDREW PEACHER | 24-10-2012 00:19 | Occupy Everywhere | Health | Policing | Public sector cuts | Birmingham | Sheffield

THE NEW ALTERNATIVE MEDIA RADIO STATION IS LOOKING FOR NEW GUESTS VISIT OUR WEBSITE OR EMAIL US.

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Protect Chapetown Residents

Coal Action Network | 07-09-2012 10:21 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Health | Sheffield

Cowley Residents Action Group are asking concerned people to write to Sheffield Council Planning Department asking them to reject the application for a coal washing plant on the Hesley Wood Tip Site. The planning application is expected to be heard at the beginning of October.

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child protection conference skegness

andy peacher | 06-09-2012 17:58 | SOCPA | Health | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | Sheffield | South Coast

skegness hosts the child stealing by the state conference 12th 13th september

2012 suncastle skegness england

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LaDIYfest Sheffield presents... Hair Today! Hair Tomorrow? Workshop

LaDIYfest Sheffield | 24-07-2012 20:41 | Culture | Gender | Health | Sheffield

We will explore the hairy politics of how women's bodies are being patrolled and controlled by societal expectations to shave and groom in a discussion workshop and zine-making session about body hair.

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Fire! In A Crowded World

Alex Smith | 19-04-2012 03:38 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Health | Sheffield

Audio
Landscape fires appear to be increasing and more fierce. New wave of fires across N.E. North America in early April! Could UK drought bring more fire? Speech excepts from 3 fire experts recorded at 2012 American Academy for the Advancement of Science special session.

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National March/Rally Against Newcastle Uni

Close Newcastle Animal Lab | 16-04-2012 19:04 | Animal Liberation | Health | Liverpool | Sheffield

Protest web banner
This is a national call out to ALL

Please attend this national demonstration against Newcastle University animal testing lab

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UG#587 - Engineering The Stench of Urban Decay

Robin Upton | 10-04-2012 17:18 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield

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This episode spins a wide range of voices into an exposé of the myth of urban decay. We begin with Steve Macek, then hear Dr. Gabor Maté on his experiences of 'drug addicts' in an inner city neighbourhood. Our longest piece is Ivan Illich speaking about water and the sense of smell.

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Fracking - The Rest of the Story

Alex Smith | 08-02-2012 19:58 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Health | Sheffield

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As fracking envelops the UK - watch the American experience. "Gasland" director Josh Fox arrested at U.S. Congress Fracking Hearing. Speakers Rep Harris (R-MD), Rep Miller (D-NC), Kathleen Sgamma (Industry), John Fenton (well poisoned, Pavillion Wyoming), Theo Colborne (air pollution health impacts of fracking). Interview with EPA whistle-blower Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, inspiration for the No Fear Act.

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Grassroots community action round-up

Freedom Press | 28-01-2012 09:42 | Education | Health | Other Press | Sheffield

A round up of campaigns organised by people in their communities including saving the local school, health service, and prevent nuclear waste dumping.

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UG#571 - Mother Nature Knows Best (Masanobu Fukuoka, Helen & Scott Nearing)

Robin Upton | 21-10-2011 14:31 | Analysis | Ecology | Health | Sheffield | World

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This week we hear about three people who, unimpressed by technological 'progress', quit city life to live successfully off the land - all three of them remained active into their 90's. Although travelling widely, they remained rooted to their homestead farms. In our first hour, Masanobu Fukuoka, who researched no-till farming in Japan for decades before Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the word permaculture. In our second hour, an audio adaptation of a film on the life and death of US back-to-the-lander Helen Nearing, and her husband, Scott.

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Scope to shut down DIAL UK, make all staff redundant

West Yorkshire Solidarity Federation | 28-09-2011 14:21 | Health | Public sector cuts | Sheffield

Scope a National charity plan to shut down a smaller charity DIAL UK and make the DIAL UK staff redundant following a recent merger. This will impact on Disabled People's Advice Services.

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Campaigners fight deportation order for 19th August

Graham Wroe | 18-08-2011 20:37 | Health | Migration | Sheffield

Justice and Ruby on their wedding day
The Home Office are set to deport Justice Charles to Sierra Leone tomorrow, even though he is married to a British citizen, has lived in the UK for 10 years and will not be able to get the health care he needs in Sierra Leone.

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ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers" - Update and Dox

Petronius | 08-08-2011 17:03 | Health | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Cambridge | Sheffield

Verified Copy of Anthony Treasure's Facebook Page Surfaces.

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ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers"

Rimbauld | 07-08-2011 12:57 | Health | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Cambridge | Sheffield

Anthony Treasure (Tony Treasure) from Castleford, Wakfield speaks out about his job de-benefitting the sick and disabled.

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The bomb: 76 years later

Jeremy Corbyn | 05-08-2011 20:32 | Anti-Nuclear | Health | History | Sheffield | World

Seventy-six years ago today the city of Hiroshima was ravaged by a US nuclear bomb. Within days Nagasaki too had been torn apart by this terrifying new weapon of mass destruction.

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UG#559 - Famine, The Fruit of Disconnection (Jailing Gardeners, Raw Milk & Soil)

Robin Upton | 17-07-2011 02:38 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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A show on the 'developed' world's fundamental disconnection from the soil that ultimately sustains us all, with an emphasis on the insanity of modern US food laws. Julian Cribb on the global famines ahead, Ivan Illich on soil and virtue, David Gumpert on why FDA agents went undercover for a year to catch an Amish farmer accused of selling raw milk. Then Frederick Kaufman on global food market profiteering by Goldman Sachs and Patrick Holden from the UK soil association on organic food and use of direct action to escape the market model of food provision.

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UG#558 - Into Eternity (Understanding The Ongoing Nuclear Wars)

Robin Upton | 09-07-2011 09:06 | Anti-Nuclear | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Health | Sheffield | World

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Did you know that the nuclear fallout in Fallujah is worse than in Hiroshima or Nagasaki? Brian Haw did. We start with a few words from the recently departed one man political protest. Then Chris Busby speaks on the dangers of radiation that authorities and the media conspire to cover up, and we hear from Jeff Donn about the real risks and radiation releases in US nuclear power stations. Our title feature, in hour 2, is a radio adaptation of the sombre and philosophical film, Into Eternity, about the Finnish efforts to build the world's first long term nuclear storage facility.

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Countering the GM come back summer camp

Stop GM | 04-07-2011 11:16 | Bio-technology | Ecology | Health | Sheffield

Spud reaper
Bring your stove and tent for an anti-GM weekend. Fri 22nd pm: Camping available. Sat 23rd: Delivering a trailer load of organic spuds to the doors of the John Innes Centre in protest at GM potato trials there. Sun 24th: a day-long planning session: GM is coming back – we’ll be ready. See below for more information.

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After The Apocalypse: Screening on 5th of July

Alex Morris | 25-06-2011 18:56 | Ecology | Health | History | Sheffield | World

'After The Apocalypse', is showing at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield on Tuesday 5th of July at 18.30.

It's a 65 minute documentary about a pregnant woman's battle to keep her unborn baby against the wishes of a hostile medical profession, in Kazakhstan.

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