Does your council, either in house of through a commissioned partner, operate a management system recording the total number of children and parents using children’s centres within your local authority boundaries?
Yes – E Start
2. How many children used children’s centres in your local authority in the each of the following financial years:
a. 2014/15 21040
b. 2015/16 20560
c. 2016/17 19532
d. 2017/18 18790
By ‘use’ we mean received any specified service or participated in at least one class or session delivered by the children’s centre on site or at an alternative site operated by the children’s centre. the total for each financial year should only count a child once even if they used a children’s centres on multiple occasions within a single financial year. By child we mean any person aged 18 and under.
3. How many of these children in each year were aged 5 or under?
All of the children are under 5
4. How many parents/carers used children’s centres in your local authority in the each of the following financial years:
a. 2014/15 23581
b. 2015/16 22880
c. 2016/17 21550
d. 2017/18 20525
By ‘use’ we mean received any specified service, received information or participated in at least one class or session delivered by the children’s centre on site or at an alternative site operated by the children’s centre. The total for each financial year should only count a parent/carer once even if they used a children’s centres on multiple occasions within a single financial year.