Derek Moore is confident about the future of the newly designated Barnstaple Children's Centre in Devon. "It's sustainable because it works," he says.
As chair of the Children's Trust for Devon, one of 35 pathfinder trusts announced by the Government in July 2003, Moore is one of many managers around the country thinking long and hard about how to make children's centres a reality.
Devon has six children's centres, a number it intends to increase to make services available across its large, rural county. But with no certainty about how much money will be available to run children's centres in the future, planning is difficult. Moore, who is assistant director of NCH in the Southwest, is nonetheless determined to make whatever money is available stretch as far as possible.
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