The National Audit Office found that children's centres are valued by most of the families who use them. Its report stated that centres are raising the quality of services and making them more relevant to the needs of lone parents, teenage parents and ethnic minorities.
But it also warned that less than a third of centres are proactively identifying and taking services out to families with high levels of need in their area. Furthermore, 52 per cent are doing no work to identify the cost or cost-effectiveness of services and 56 per cent are not monitoring their performance. The investigation also uncovered funding problems with 13 per cent of centres forecasting a fiancial deficit for the year.
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