Representatives from Manchester Education Partnership recently attended a series of meetings with architects working on the first phase of the city's children's centres.
Manchester already has six children's centres up and running, with five more awaiting approval. Twenty-six are planned in total, with funding of around 9.8m.
Bev Jones, the partnership's senior Foundation Stage consultant and a member of the team involved in planning the children's centres, said, 'I've been looking at what spaces would be used for and the impact on children's learning. I wanted to explore how the design could engage children rather than just comply with the standards.'
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