The Government is to throw an extra 100m at children's centres but, says Sue Finch, it won't be enough for an integrated service
The Chancellor surprised everyone when he announced, in his spending review speech last month, that an extra 100m would be made available to create not 1,700 but 2,500 children's centres by 2008. This massive increase of 800 extra centres will still mean only one centre in each of England's 30 per cent most deprived wards.
A children's centre in every community for children from birth to teens and their families, providing a comprehensive and joined-up approach throughout childhood, is a vision that many Nursery World readers share.
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