Last month, parents launched individual campaigns to save the eight nurseries Bright Horizons operates for HMRC. Run in partnership with management company Mapeley,which owns the buildings, they are due to close at the end of November.
The settings, most of which are rated good or outstanding, are open to the community as well as HMRC employees.
Bright Horizions says that it approached HMRC and Mapeley to continue to operate the nurseries on a leasehold basis but failed to obtain an agreement. The nursery group also looked into relocating the settings in all locations but they were unable to find any viable solutions.
Parents have started a Facebook group - 'Save HMRC Nurseries’, and a petition, which now has more than 2,200 signatures, to challenge the closure and claims made by HMRC that the majority of places at the nurseries are not taken up by children of HMRC staff.
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