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MARCH 2012
Outstanding!
lackpool’s families have been B celebrating their “outstanding” Five children's centres get top rating children’s centres. Grange Park Children’s Centre is the latest Blackpool Council children’s centre to have achieved an OFSTED report of “Outstanding”. With this report, now five out of the seven Blackpool centres that have been inspected, have achieved the highest rating.
Outstanding Grange Park now joins other centres, Mereside & Clifton, Thames, St Cuthbert’s & Palatine and Talbot & Brunswick Children’s Centres as “outstanding”. The OFSTED report praised the staff at the centre, saying that they were “enthusiastic” and “highly motivated”. It also commended the role that the centre played within the local area, calling it “hugely important to ….the wider communities of Grange Park and Layton.”
Testament Cllr Ivan Taylor, Blackpool Council Cabinet Member with responsibility for children’s centres, was also high in his praise for all the centres. He said: “All of the staff in our children’s centres are very professional and care a lot about the work that that they do to help improve families’ lives. These fantastic OFSTED reports are a testament to that. “The fact that we now have five centres which have been given this high standard shows just what fantastic learning facilities and support for families we have for children in
The first “I do” at Festival House
Blackpool and that shouldn’t be ignored. “I congratulate not just the staff at Grange Park but everyone who works in our children’s centres as they all do a very important job and I’m glad that they have been recognised again.” In the recent budget children's
he first happy couple have T tied the knot at Festival House.
Kelly and Simon became Mr and Mrs Garrick as they both said “I do” on a special day at the new Promenade wedding venue. The sun set on a very romantic evening on the seafront, before the couple travelled through
centres have been protected.
What parents think Anne Robinson said: "This is a place I can come to when I feel low or have a problem and know someone will help me find a solution or just listen. Staff are friendly and supportive and know how to find the help I need;
a section of the Illuminations to their reception The couple made the most of a generous sponsorship package from various Blackpool wedding businesses to cover many of their wedding costs. Images courtesy of the first wedding sponsor, Dream Capture Photography. www.dreamcapturephotography.co.uk
they understand and never judge. Grange Park Children's Centre is the heart of the community." Leigh Robinson said: "I have made lots of friends here at the centre. You can meet other mums at the groups who are the same as you and talk things over. The courses are really good to."
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