Guest post from Chris Sewell on behalf of Save Oxfordshire's Children's Centre Campaign

From Save Oxfordshire’s Children’s centres Campaign:

The Department of Education's Children's Centres Impact Study was published yesterday.

Unsurprisingly Oxfordshire County Council did not want to wait for this highly regarded report's favourable findings on the country's children's centres to be released before making a decision on Oxfordshire's children's centres....

The full report is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-centres-their-impact-on-children-and-families

From the report

"Organised activities, such as 'Stay and Play' sessions where parents and their children played and learned songs, were linked to small but significant reductions in parenting stress, improvements in mothers’ health, and better learning environments in the children's own homes.

Children's centres operate in disadvantaged neighbourhoods to provide a wide range of services tailored to local conditions and needs, but they are also intended to target the most vulnerable families. The Oxford study shows children’s centres with the best funding and staffing levels did reach families in ‘most need’ – the poorest households and families with dysfunctional parent-child relationships"

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