The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) says that family hubs would act as local ‘nerve centres’ to enable parents to access all family-related support including universal services and specialist help to meet their ‘most pressing needs’.
The idea is just one recommendation by the think tank to tackle ‘very high’ levels of family breakdown in this country, outlined in a new report-‘Fully committed? How a Government could reverse family breakdown’, the second of its Breakthrough Britain 2015 series.
Charity 4Children has continued to call for children’s centres to work as ‘community childcare hubs', and last year received a two-year Government funded contract to pilot this approach.
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