Issue - meetings

To seek approval for changes to the children centre footprints in order that they align with the new Local Area Partnership boundaries.

The Cabinet Member for Children and Family Services considered a report on progress to date in implementing the Sure Start Children Centre programme in Cheshire East. The report sought approval for changes to the children centre footprints in order that they aligned with the new Local Area Partnership boundaries. The changes would result in a reduction in the number of footprints and total number of designated centres from 20 to 19 and would support a more sustainable model of children centre delivery in the authority.

RESOLVED

That

(1)   the Cabinet Member for Children and Family Services approves

?       the reshaping of the children centre footprints so that they are as coterminous as possible with Local Area Partnerships boundaries;

?       the removal of  the current Holmes Chapel footprint and integration with the current Middlewich footprint to create a new Middlewich and Holmes Chapel footprint / phase 3 centre; and

?       the establishment of a linked/satellite site within the Congleton Town children centre footprint which has a population above the recommended limit of 1200 children aged 0-5; and

(2)   the Cabinet Member notes that a service delivery model for rural areas will be further developed, and specifically to support Crewe Rural Children’s Centre (which is to be renamed Nantwich Rural Children’s Centre).