THE story “Crediton Children’s Centre and Library to be housed together” appeared in the Courier on Friday, July 24, issue 1043.

Devon County Council (DCC) is proposing to move Crediton Children’s Centre into Crediton Library in order to save money and improve the services on offer.

The Children’s Centre supports families in Crediton and the surrounding area with their children’s wellbeing, safety, health and development needs through individual support, parenting programmes, play sessions, holiday activities and information services.

DCC launched a series of consultations last year, looking at how they could better provide services that Devon residents value, at less cost.

Devon County Councillor, Nick Way explained: "It is important that both of these well used services are provided with a good base to work from here in Crediton.

"While space for both will be affected because of the move, the need to work within budgets that are currently being squeezed by central government is unfortunately a necessity.

"The priority for us in Crediton must be for the council to continue to keep the services operating efficiently for those who use and depend upon them."

What do you think of the plan to move Crediton Children’s Centre into Crediton Library?

Please let me know. Contact me at 102 High Street, Crediton or email: [email protected] .

Readers are also invited to take part in the poll on the “Courier” website: www.creditoncouriernewspaper.co.uk .

What you told us ……….

It could be a good thing to get the kids reading. Parking is not good at the library. They would need to put up a partition and move the books. They would need to sort the parking and segregation to make it work.

Garrie Mills

I think the library is already cramped. It is a good space for the community to use. Children need space to move around or they bump into each other. The library is an ideal place for pre-schoolers to meet other children. It’s small enough already. The staff are always lovely.

I think it would be a shame. My children are of school age and we enjoy using the library. It would be a shame to make it smaller.

Crediton Resident

ONLINE POLL

My apologies for there being no poll last issue, but we are in the process of upgrading our website.