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Medway Council approves early years services consultation (18 May 2017)

Date: 18/05/2017
Duncan Lewis, Family Solicitors, Medway Council approves early years services consultation

Medway Council has approved recommendations to go out to consultation on the transformation of early help and children’s centre services.

A six-week period of consultation will go ahead, during which local residents will have an opportunity to comment on the proposals to transform early years services.

The council says there will be extensive opportunities for people to have their say and it will be working closely with families, carers, schools and health providers.

There will also be community engagement events where local people can find out more and have their say.

The proposals look at the creation of four super-hub centres, from which integrated children’s centres and early years help can be provided for the whole of Medway.

If given the go ahead following public consultation, the council said the super-hub centres would combine children’s centre services for 0-five-year-olds – with early help teams who work with families and children who are aged five and upwards.

The council added that families would benefit from a whole host of services under one roof.

Each super-hub would also serve a wider area by operating as a base for outreach work, through which more tailored services could be provided.

Tailored services might include visits to the most vulnerable families in their own homes, giving the potential for better overall outcomes, said the council.

Medway Council’s Portfolio Holder for Children’s Services, Councillor Andrew Mackness, said:

“I’d urge everyone who has a view on this to submit their comments once the consultation is live – and let us know their ideas about how we can deliver services in a different way.

“The service must transform if we are to continue to deliver quality early help to families – and we need to think of innovative ways to do that.

“We cannot stand still and watch our services in their current model suffer due to reductions and changes in central government funding and a reducing council budget.”


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