Staffordshire County Council has 54 children's centre sites with 26 designated children's centres. However, nearly all of the children's centre provision is operated by private, voluntary and independent providers.
Nursery group Tiny Toez runs five children's centres in the county.
The council says that only 25 per cent of families in the county use children’s centres and that only a quarter of these are from its target groups, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The council is proposing handing over 23 of the buildings, which are already based on school sites, to schools, with the stipulation that some of the provision is used for services for birth to fives.
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