The Kent-based centres spoke out after children's minister BeverleyHughes told a select committee that children's centres are being fundedat around 66 per cent of the funding level associated with the originalSure Start centres (Children Now, 29 November-5 December 2006).
In a letter to Children Now (see p12), directors of the four centresflatly dispute this figure. "The figures we have seen propose thatcentres in Kent will have to run on close to 160,000 per annum.This compares with an average peak funding level of around 750,000 per annum for Sure Start centres."
Funding problems in children's centres were also flagged up in a majorprogress report published in December by the Government's spendingwatchdog.
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