• IT was with great sadness that I was informed that my daughter’s nursery, Sunshine Day Nursery, will be closing at the end of this month.

Situated in Queen’s Crescent, the nursery is run by the CARAF Centre, a charity set up to support the parents of black and minority ethnic and low-income families. Although, I stress, children of all religions and races have been welcomed.

The closure is because of falling demand for places at the nursery and for other services for young people that CARAF provides, making it financially unable to run.

This has become a recurring theme in Camden with the closing of St Aloysius and Carlton primary schools, and the threat of reduction in size of La Sainte Union and Haverstock secondary schools.

The real culprit here is that housing in Camden is just far too expensive for families; soon it will become a childless borough.

ALICE MENDELOWITZ, NW5