Last month it emerged that the life chances strategy, which had been due to feature a long-awaited consultation on children's centres originally due to launch in spring last year, has been dropped.
Instead, the government has said that elements of the strategy, which was believed to feature measures designed to address child poverty, including a plan to significantly expand parenting provision, will feature in a social justice green paper to be published this year.
The DfE has told CYP Now that the children's centres consultation is still going ahead, and is likely to launch in early 2017 as a departmental priority, separate of the social justice green paper.
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