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<P>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 </P>
Lisa Harker, head of Strategy Unit, NSPCC, calls for children's centres services to be refocused on supporting children under the age of two
Barnardo's and Action for Children have lost their contracts to run seven children's centres in Leicester in a council bid to save 1.7m a year.
Hampshire County Council has committed itself to protecting all of its 81 children's centres from closure.
Local authorities in England will be given new duties to ensure that there are sufficient Sure Start children's centres in their area, the Government said last week.
The latest statistics for children's centres inspections and outcomes have found that more than two-thirds of children's centres inspected during the last quarter were judged to be good or...
The London Borough of Southwark has released details of its children's centre programme, which will bring the total number of centres to 21 by 2008. Work has already begun on the first phase of the...
Children's centres must do more outreach work to target families most in need, train staff in financial expertise and liaise with local authorities to establish the real cost of their services.
Some local authorities will be able to delay opening children's centres after March 2008 to meet 'a more realistic timescale'.
Doncaster council is to take over the running of all of the borough's children's centres because of fears over future funding.