Children's centres are supposed to provide a range of integratedservices, including training and employment advice, family support,access to health visitors and other health care workers, and outreachservices for children and families.
Conservative childcare spokesman Paul Goodman tabled a question to theDepartment for Education and Skills asking how many actually offeredthese services.
In her answer Hughes restated the Government's aim that "by 2010, therewill be 3,500 centres - one for every community". But she failed toprovide the requested statistics.
Goodman told Children Now: "The answer is a bit vague. I tabled this asa preliminary question and I will be coming back to it. I think we willhave better idea when the centres have been up and running for a bitlonger, in six to nine months' time."
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