Back in March, children's minister Beverley Hughes announced the creation of a network for leaders of children's centres. The network was intended for frontline children's centre managers "who meet and greet parents at the front door".
Together for Children and the National College for School Leadership were given the task of setting up the network. But Maxine Bretherton-Budd, director of strategy and partnerships at Together for Children, emphasises that the two organisations do not run it.
"Hughes described it as a 'network for leaders, eventually run by leaders' and our role is more about facilitation," she says. "I don't see us running the network at all. We are here to facilitate children's centre leaders bringing about this network for themselves."
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