The council's cabinet this week agreed the transfer of the strategic leadership of the Sure Starts, which are currently led by South Birmingham Primary Care Trust.
Lesley Adams, the council's head of early years and childcare, said the move had been suggested by the trust as a logical step within the wider integration of children's services.
All Sure Start local programmes will start to come under local authority control from 2006 but Adams said Birmingham was keen to be ahead of the game.
"We wanted to do this ahead of schedule in order for the council to be more influential in the development of Sure Start local programmes," she said. But this would in no way mean the primary care trust withdrawing from the programmes, she added.
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