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One of the things that we became involved in trying to build in the early days was a set of nurseries that began in Bromley-by-Bow. We ended up running four, growing a whole range of relationships with families, who then began trust us. They were very vulnerable families involved in welfare issues, health issues and all the rest of it. Yet there came a point, at year 10, when Tower Hamlets Council, then in that form, decided that it was going to pull all the nursery care in-house—I think to protect pensions, local authority officers and a whole range of stuff. All those relationships that we had spent many years building and all the connections made with health and so on began to be destroyed. Even today, that is having implications.