Our communities have told us that our teams need to be more joined up as this will make their lives easier. To help to achieve this, we propose to redesign our overall offer at our Children’s and Family Centres so that people can access support more easily, and it will cover ages 0 to 19 year olds. We propose to do this by creating main bases that will be known as Family Wellbeing Centres, complemented by a number of smaller bases, which may have a different offer.
It may mean that some people will access our offer in a different place or in a different way. This will enable us to make the most of the limited amount of money that we have available to provide this important support to 0 to 19 year olds and their families. The consultation considers different ways to make sure families who use the services get the right support for the right issue at the right time by creating 0-19 Family Wellbeing Service Centres. Similar models have been adopted across the country. Proposals being considered are to redesign and potentially relocate a centre with the creation of three main Family and Wellbeing Centres across the borough (merged Family and Children Centres) with additional delivery points. Some of these delivery points will be where exisitng Family and Children's Centres are currently located.