While many local authorities argue that they have no choice but to close children's centres as they attempt to plug gaps in their funding caused by the harshest Government cuts for decades, advocates for intergenerational practice argue that there is another way.
Campaigners such as Denise Burke, co-founder of the social enterprise United for All Ages, believe that opening up children's centres to different age groups could help to save them from the axe along with other much valued services such as libraries, community centres and youth clubs, and to promote the social cohesion outlined in David Cameron's vision for the Big Society.
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