An evaluation of children's centres by the parliamentary education committee identifies three types of centre with different roles and functions being delivered by each – the majority of which do not provide early education or childcare despite it being a statutory requirement of the Childcare Act 2006.
As a result, the report states that the government’s core purpose for children’s centres – described by childcare minister Elizabeth Truss as “being there to offer services to parents, to improve outcomes for children and to provide a gateway into other services that are provided locally” – is too vague and calls on the government to be clearer about the services they should provide.
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