Two of the borough council’s 13 children’s centres will stop providing these services and instead focus on nursery provision for deprived two-year-olds.
The council says that the proposals would save £280,000 in 2012-2013 and £445,000 over two years.
The reorganisation of children's centres will be completed by July 2012, if the plan goes ahead.
The council will spend £200,000 on providing extra daycare provision to expand the free entitlement for deprived two-year-olds at Little Treasures in Westcliff and Cockleshells at Southend’s Adult Community College.
The remaining 11 centres would have their management structures re-organised so that they would share management teams across sites, with possible redundancies.
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