In June, the DfES put out to tender a major programme to outsource support services for children's centres, shifting control away from staff in England's nine regional offices to an external co-ordinator.
The Together for Children consortium, led by international service company Serco and its partner CareandHealth, together with voluntary organisations ContinYou and 4Children and project management firm PA Consulting, is confident that it will be awarded the two-year contract.
An advertisement appeared in last week's Society Guardian for the post of programme director for the Together for Children children's centres development partnership.
Anne Longfield, chief executive, 4Children, said, 'Our proposal to the DfES involves bridging the gap between children's centres and extended schools and builds on our knowledge of running and developing children's centres.'
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