Children's Centres

(asked on 24th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2021 to Question 164550, how many (a) children’s centres and (b) children’s centre linked sites were operating in each year since 2009-10.


Answered by
Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 15th April 2021

Based on the information supplied by local authorities there were 2301 children’s centres and 699 linked sites as at 25 March 2021[1], the total numbers of children’s centres and sites each year since 2010[2] are set out below:

Year

Number of children’s centres and sites[3]

2010

3,615

2011

3,619

2012

3,615

2013

3,577

2014

3,542

2015

3,442

2016

3,282

2017

3,214

2018

3,112

2019

3,048

2020

3,017

2021

3,000

[1] Source: This is based on information supplied by local authorities to the Get Information about Schools (GIAS) database, which can be access here: https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk, and internal management information held by the department as of 25 March 2021. These figures may be different to previous answers, and could change again in future, since local authorities may update their data at any time. The GIAS collects data on children’s centres that local authorities have closed on a permanent basis. It does not collect data on children’s centres that local authorities may have closed temporarily in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

[2] Figures for 2010 are as at 30 April 2010. Figures for subsequent years are as at 1 January.

[3] No data is held on the date a children’s centre converts to a children’s centre linked site, therefore while a figure for the split between children’s centres and linked sites at the point a query is made can be established, it is not possible to provide a historic breakdown of this figure in previous years.

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