Children's centres consultation 2025

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Ealing Council is consulting on proposals to reorganise how early help services are provided from its children’s centres in the borough.

Early help is an important step towards creating a safe environment for our children and young people to develop and reach their full potential, in their most crucial developmental years, under 5.

The proposals

The proposals aim to improve the early help service offer and make sure that the future services are sustainable and effective.

This means making changes to early help services so that they can be provided from fewer children’s centres and additional community venues across the borough’s 7 towns. The remaining children centres may be repurposed for other uses.

Proposals also include longer opening hours for the children’s centres in the future and enhancing the council’s digital services such as online parenting workshops.

Your views

We would really like to hear from families and about their experience of our service and equally we want to hear from families that are not currently accessing the services and the barriers they experience and how best we can improve our offer.

The consultation is open to everyone, whether they have used a children’s centre or early help services before or not.

Please read the full consultation document

Then complete a short online survey to say what you think of the proposals.

Here is an easy read version of the Children's centres consultation document to support discussions with families.

There is also a map showing children’s centres across the borough

We will also speak to parents and families directly at children’s centres:
Please see the list of upcoming in-person and online consultation events

The consultation will close on 27 April 2025.

Further information

If you need any further information or help with taking part in this consultation, please contact children@ealing.gov.uk