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		</div><p>David Cameron&#8217;s mother has signed a petition against spending cuts in his constituency.</p>
<p>Retired magistrate Mary Cameron, 81, has put her name to a battle to save dozens of children&#8217;s centres due to be closed by Conservative-run Oxfordshire County Council, according to the Daily Mirror.</p>
<p>The British Prime Minister previously wrote to the local authority in his capacity as MP for Witney expressing &#8220;disappointment&#8221; at planned cuts to museums, libraries and day centres for the elderly.</p>
<p>But Council leader Ian Hudspeth hit back, saying the curbs were the result of reductions in funding from central government.</p>
<p>Mrs Cameron apparently signed the petition while she was visiting her son.<br />
She told the newspaper: &#8220;My name is on the petition but I don&#8217;t want to discuss this any further.&#8221;</p>
<p>The petition, which has attracted more than 7,000 signatures, is addressed to the council and its cabinet member for education, Melinda Tilley, and calls for 44 children&#8217;s centres to be kept open for universal use.</p>
<p>It says: &#8220;Our children&#8217;s centres are a lifeline to new parents who rely on locally accessible advice and support at a time when it is most needed.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cutting these essential services would leave families vulnerable and isolated, and fail an entire generation of children.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jill Huish, from the Save Oxfordshire Children&#8217;s Centres campaign, told the Banburyshire Info website: &#8220;I am delighted that Mary Cameron has joined the senior voices, including that of her son the Prime Minister, against the Conservative county council&#8217;s closure of children&#8217;s centres.</p>
<p>&#8220;It seems to be a bizarre situation where David Cameron is unable to defend children&#8217;s centres against the cruel cuts he&#8217;s allowed his own government to impose on local authorities.&#8221;</p>
<p>The council is planning to shut all 44 of the county&#8217;s children&#8217;s centres and halve the budget of £16m for early years education, campaigners say, replacing them with eight children and family centres which would only be accessible to the most vulnerable people, by referral.</p>
<p>The petition says: &#8220;It is a false economy to close children&#8217;s centres.<br />
&#8220;Universal access to the early intervention services they provide has numerous economic and other long-term benefits for the health and well-being of parents, children and the wider community.&#8221;</p>
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