Currently the council runs 15 children’s centres, but in a consultation launched this week, the council said the success of the services varied considerably and only reached nine per cent of lone parents, 32 per cent of families with disabled children and 36 per cent of teenage parents.
To improve these figures the council has proposed to only run six centres, in areas where there are the highest concentration of disadvantaged families.
Similarly the council said that only 20 per cent of the 22,000 young people aged 13 to 19 in South Gloucestershire regularly visited the 13 youth clubs that the council runs.
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