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A new report suggests inviting businesses to operate from children’s centres or raising taxes to pay for the future running of centres.
The Local Government Association says it is 'inevitable' councils will be forced to close more children's centres unless the Government provides extra funding.
Eight in ten Sure Start children's centres in the most deprived areas of the country are outstanding or good, the latest statistics for Ofsted inspections show.
What are local authorities doing to resist the pressure to close children's centres - and why do they consider it important? Melanie Defries reports.
Around 250 children's centres are at risk of closing this year and up to a thousand have warned staff that they are at risk of redundancy, new research has found.
Seventy per cent of children centres managed as clusters, or as 'hub and spoke' models, were rated as 'requires improvement' under the new inspection framework.
Three Greater Manchester children's centres have been judged 'inadequate' by Ofsted less than six months after they became a 'cluster'.
Cutting back on the number of Sure Start Children's Centres in response to short-term financial pressure could jeopardise the future of the programme, a group of MPs has warned.
A new report calls for more children’s centres, particularly those in areas with ‘high concentrations’ of vulnerable families, to register births.
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