The council has said it will reduce its £6.8m budget to £2m as part of a bid to protect funding for services such as child protection, fostering and adoption.
The authority is yet to publish details about how the cuts will affect children’s centres services, which operate on 26 sites across the city, but it hopes to launch a consultation on the plans early next year.
Councillor Jane Corbett, cabinet member for education and children’s services, has blamed a 58 per cent cut in funding from central government and said the authority has to save £156m over the next three years as a result.
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