"Closure of child care clinics"

This is about the closure of all church based children's clinics. These clinics have been run for decades providing locally based care and support at minimum cost. Often voluntary groups have supplemented services offering friendship to new parents.

With the minimum of notice it all goes - this is a story with a very sad ending and its consequences will not be appreciated because of economic shortsightedness.

The value of locally based (often within walking distance) and personal services is crucial. What condition does the authority have when it fails to see the obvious and denies to the next generation what has been of proven benefit to the last?