Announcing the launch of the public consultation into the legal status of children's centres, at an event last Thursday (11 September) organised by the Pre-School Learning Alliance to celebrate the Early Years Foundation Stage, Sheila Scales, director of Early Years at the Department for Children, Schools and Families, said the aim was to 'put Sure Start children's centres on a firmer footing in legislation so that they will be a permanent part of the landscape in the way that schools are'.
She said 2,909 children's centres were now open. The Government's target is for 3,500 children's centres by March 2010 and it wants to give SSCCs a legal basis in the Education and Skills Bill.
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