Hampshire County Council is closing most of its children’s centres as it moves from offering universal services to targeted support for vulnerable families.
Only 11 of its 54 children’s centres will remain in a bid to save £8.5m a year.
A new Family Support Service will operate out of the remaining children’s centres in the county, each based in one of Hampshire’s districts in areas of ‘high deprivation’.
At their height in 2010 there were 83 children’s centres in the county, but by 2012 these were reduced to 54 through mergers as a result of changes to Government policy allowing local authorities to take a more flexible approach.
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