Andrea Leadsom, Conservative MP for South Northamptonshire who chairs the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Sure Start children’s centres, said the DfE had committed to the project following prompting by children’s minister Edward Timpson.
Leadsom told CYP Now that the DfE had confirmed it will study children’s centres in Manchester, York, and Bury, some of which have offered birth registration services for a decade.
“A member of the DfE’s Sure Start team is spending the next few weeks gaining evidence from children’s centres that already do registering of births,” said Leadsom.
“They are going to look at whether there is a quantitative correlation between the centre’s figures for reach – the number of babies you support in your area – and the fact they offer birth registration. We want to make the case that offering registration of births, which you are legally able to do from children’s centres, would be a game changer for children’s centres.”
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