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The Quaggy Children's Centre opens for business in Lewisham, London, on 19 January. Operated on behalf of the local council by the Quaggy Community Trust, it includes a nursery providing care for 45 children from three months to four years and a community and Sure Start facility with creche, toy library, training room and outside play area. Children's minister Margaret Hodge attended the official opening of the new building at Kate Greenaway Nursery School in Islington, London, on 10 January. The new facility for under-threes marks the completion of the first phase of progress towards becoming a children's centre, offering integrated nursery education, childcare and health services for families with children from birth to five years old.

Children's minister Margaret Hodge attended the official opening of the new building at Kate Greenaway Nursery School in Islington, London, on 10 January. The new facility for under-threes marks the completion of the first phase of progress towards becoming a children's centre, offering integrated nursery education, childcare and health services for families with children from birth to five years old.

A 1.1m extension project has transformed Bognor Regis Nursery School in West Sussex into an Early Excellence Centre. The centre, which opened last month, caters for 142 part-time nursery children and offers 53 neighbourhood nursery places for children aged three months to five years.

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