During last week's Department for Children, Schools and Families' conference for children's centre leaders, Timms was told by delegates that working with JobCentre Plus could be problematic.
Heads of centres said they sometimes struggled to develop relationships with the agency and that it did not seem to have been made clear that working with children's centres was required by law.
One centre manager said: "JobCentre Plus doesn't seem to be resourced to engage with children's centres."
Timms said: "It is early days but we are seeing some good examples of JobCentre Plus and children's centres working together. However, we need to do better and I expect to see staff visit children's centres and operating surgeries from them."
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