"CHILD study highlights most needy" (Lake Times, November 12) provided interesting reading indeed.
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The childcare centre run by Shellharbour City Council, at present, pays peppercorn rent to the state government for the facility.
However, it appears that the future of the centre is in doubt as it may become privatised.
If that happens, the children and parents who need it (and it is backed up by this latest report) will not be able to afford to attend it, so in fact the children will fall further and further behind, both socially and in literacy and numeracy.
It seems strange, to say the least, that with that knowledge, and knowing that the area is one of the most socially disadvantaged areas in the state, council is going full steam ahead in its plan to spend at least $57 million to build the hub, a project that at least 10,000 people in our city area have said they do not want.
Would it not make more sense to spend dollars on the preschool centre and, having sold off Warilla Library, build a new Warilla Library where it is needed?
Surely councillors must know that our children are our future, and they must plan to give them every possible opportunity to have a future.
The hub will not do that.
Mairi Petersen
Shellharbour