The National Children’s Bureau’s (NCB) report, based on findings from its survey of practitioners and parents, outlines different funding options cited by respondents to save children's centres from closure.
The options put forward by respondents, 161 of which were early years professionals, 64 parents and eight others, include:
Other suggestions are to raise awareness of the positive outcomes of children’s centre services, clarify their core purpose and engage the wider public to make children’s centres ‘community hubs’.
The report, ‘Developing the future purpose for children’s centres’, goes on to highlight the impact of funding cuts to centres.
One survey respondent revealed how their children’s centre was moved into the basement of a school, a much smaller, darker space and inaccessible with a buggy.
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