Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

Members received a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

Members noted the plans for a review of the City of London

Children’s Centre Services. The City of London has 1 Children Centre based at Sir

John Cass, however, Children Centre services are commissioned and delivered

across the whole of the City of London. This will be the first review of these

services undertaken since the Children Centre was first designated in 2007.

The review will initially seek to identify and set out the current offer in terms of

design, location, cost, impact and quality of early years services for young children

and their families across the whole of the City of London.

Children and Families will be consulted on what they want and how these services

meet their needs. This information will be central to the proposals that will be

brought back to this Committee at the end of the review.

The review is not being undertaken as part of a savings exercise and whilst

recommendations may emerge that suggest a possible re-design of services, any

such recommendations will be made with the purpose of improving the outcomes

and the impact of the children centre services offer.

RESOLVED: That Members noted the report