It has been hard to quantify the scale of likely cuts to children's centres nationwide, as individual local authorities struggle to apportion slashed budgets that are no longer ring-fenced.
Five centres to go here, opening hours to be reduced there, schools to be asked to take over centres elsewhere - that's localism for you!
However, for opposition to children's centres closing to be effective, we need to have the bigger picture. Nick Pearce of the IPPR is right in his 'To the Point' column. The protests over Sure Start cuts have so far been piecemeal and muted in comparison with those over the forest sell-off.
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