Ninety per cent of Barnardo's 190 children's centres across England said the service would help them to promote their services and engage with more families.
Currently, birth registration is only offered as a service at children's centres in 20 local authorities across the country, the charity states in its report – Fullfilling Their Potential.
Offering birth registration would help support families that are often hard to engage, the report says.
“According to centres, it is often those that need support that do not generally come in,” it states.
The report adds that the move would also help protect children.
“Engaging with mothers most at risk of postnatal depression has an obvious advantage for safeguarding,” it states.
“In many communities, delivering this service will have huge benefits for local families, particularly more vulnerable ones."
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