Wolverhampton City Council says that it needs to make savings of £1.5m per year after seeing the funding it receives through the Early Intervention Grant cut by nearly a third over the next two years, the equivalent of £3.8m.
As a result, the council has launched a three-month consultation into plans to restructure its 17 children’s centres.
Proposals include keeping eight existing children’s centres, while reducing the provision at the other nine centres which would be used to deliver occasional sessions for children and parents.
Management and back office functions could also be ‘streamlined’ in order to make savings.
According to the council, each area will continue to have its own children’s centre delivering a wide range of services to children under five and their families. It says that integrating services in this way will enable families to access a wide range of support more easily.
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