More than 50 toddlers and babies will lose their community kindergarten, as the Albanese government claims Swinburne University is chasing a $14 million real estate payday.

The local federal MP and Stonnington Council say talks to save the much-loved Windsor Community Children’s Centre (WCCC) have collapsed after the uni knocked back an $8 million joint offer to buy the site and keep the kinder operating from its home of nearly three decades.

The Windsor Community Children’s Centre is facing closure. Credit: Joe Armao

But Swinburne reacted indignantly on Friday to the public attack by the government and council, with the university saying that no $8 million offer had ever been made and that the tertiary institution had worked hard to find a fair solution to the kinder’s future.

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