During a meeting yesterday, the council’s children’s services committee voted through the plans, which will leave just 15 children’s centres remaining across the county.
The changes will be implemented from October.
The move follows a public consultation by the council in September in which it proposed closing 46 of its 53 children’s centres. After receiving more than 1,600 responses, the proposals were amended, giving eight centres a reprieve.
The de-registration of the centres forms part of the council’s plans to create an ‘Early Childhood and Family Service’, focusing on providing outreach within local community venues such as libraries, village halls, schools and in families’ homes.
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