The London Borough could be left with 'a single family hub', if council plans go ahead.
In a bid to make savings from its budget, Enfield London Borough Council is proposing to close three of its four children's centres, leaving a single Family Hub.
The council's funding for children's centres is reducing from £1.6m to £1.03m per year.
A source told Nursery World that under the plans, which would take effect from April 2018 and are due to be put out for consultation this week, around 40 members of children's centre staff could lose their jobs.
The schools that currently manage the children's centres have been invited to bid for tender to run the single Family Hub.
Enfield London Borough Council is among a number of local authorities consulting on plans to reduce their children's centres as a result of cuts to Government funding.
A spokesperson for Enfield London Borough Council said, 'As a result of funding reductions from central government we are required to make savings of more than £50 million by 2020/21, this is on top of the £131m we have already saved since 2010.
'Consequently, we are looking at every area of council expenditure to find ways of continuing to provide services against a challenging backdrop of funding reductions. Therefore, we are looking at a remodelling of our children's centre service and are consulting on our proposals.
'The plans that will be put out for consultation, if adopted, would see our Children's Centre Services focused into a single hub with satellite sites across the borough.
'Our children's centres continue to form a key part of our Family Resilience Strategy and we think the best way to respond to funding reductions and make the best use of our limited resources is by continuing to work closely with schools. We will also be focussing on the development of a family hub and ultimately bringing in health and social care services for children up to age 19 - in line with recent all party parliamentary thinking.'
