Research conducted by parenting club Bounty on behalf of the Daycare Trust found that 53 per cent of the 2,260 mothers surveyed said that it would be harder to meet local families without children's centres and 35 per cent said that they would feel isolated.
A third said that it would be harder to see their midwife or health visitor and 29 per cent said they would miss out on advice about parenting skills. More than a quarter said that their child's development would suffer.
The survey revealed that 83 per cent of those questioned felt that councils should be required to spend all of their Sure Start funding on children's centres, rather than using it to plug funding gaps for other services.
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