Children's Centres and Family Hubs - Find a freedom of information request

Children's Centres and Family Hubs

The Centre for Young Lives is a new independent think tank, founded and led by former Children's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield CBE, which is dedicated to improving the life chances of children and young people - especially those that are growing up in adversity.

We are asking for this information as part of our research into the delivery of integrated, place based early intervention support for children and families, including the potential for, and barriers to, further development. We will use this information to highlight the benefits of such support and advocate to the Treasury for greater funding through the 2025 comprehensive spending review to enable local authorities to provide more early intervention services like children's centres and family hubs.

We know how important this preventative support is in preventing future problems from storing up, bringing down need, and ultimately, bringing down local authority spending on costly crisis intervention.

1. How many children's centres and family hubs, operated or funded by your council or delivered in your local authority area, were open in 2023/2024. Please provide a break down by:

a) children's centres

b) family hubs

c) centres by another name. If you have this information, please also provide the postcode for each of these centres or hubs.

Please complete the table below providing your total budget and spend on children's centres and/or family hubs in 2023/2024 and budget for 2024/25. If you have this information, please provide a break down by each centre or hub. Please also list the funding sources for your children's centres and/or family hubs.

Where there are partner contributions or co -commissioned services, please specify.

Budget 2023/24

Spend 2023/24

Budget 2024/25

Total children's centres and family hubs

Total children's centres

Total family hubs

Children's centre 1 [insert postcode]

Children's centre 2 [insert postcode]

Children's centre 3 [insert postcode]

Please add additional rows where necessary

Total local authority funding

Total department for Education funding

Total statutory partner / agency funding (please specify)

Total trusts and Foundations funding Other funding (please specify)

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. 48 children's centres which include 10 family hubs and an additional 2 linked sites.

a. Boston St Christophers (linked site) PE21 8HY

Boston Carlton Road PE21 8QX

Boston Fishtoft Road (linked site) PE21 0AA

Old Leake PE22 9HR

Sutterton PE20 2JN

Swineshead PE20 3EN

Alford LN13 9PS

Wainfleet PE24 4DD

Louth LN11 8DQ

Holton Le Clay DN36 5DR

Binbrook LN8 6DU

Spilsby PE23 5EP

Horncastle LN9 6DA

Tattershall LN4 4QZ

Lincoln Carholme LN1 1PU

Lincoln Central LN5 7XT

Bracebridge LN5 8QT

Abbey LN2 5AX

Moorland LN6 7DT

North Hykeham LN6 8QZ

Billinghay LN4 4HU

Caythorpe NG32 3DR

Waddington LN5 9BN

Washingborough LN4 1BW

Witham St Hughs LN6 9WF

Crowland PW6 0JA

Holbeach PE12 7LZ

Sutton Bridge PE12 9TB

Grantham Belton Lane NG31 9PP

South Witham NG35 5PH

Bourne PE10 9DX

Stamford PE9 1HE

Market Deeping PE6 8JE

Gainsborough North Marsh Road DN21 2RR

Hemswell DN21 5XS

Sturton by Stow LN1 2BY

Market Rasen LN8 3BJ

Caistor LN8 6DU Welton LN2 3JB

Cherry Willingham LN3 4BD

b) Boston Norfolk Lodge PE21 6PW

Skegness PE25 2QT

Mablethorpe LN12 1DP

Lincoln North LN2 2DD

Lincoln St Giles LN2 4NP

Birchwood LN6 0JE

Sleaford NG34 7TW

Spalding PE11 2JQ

Grantham Swingbridge NG31 7XQ

Gainsborough Market Arcade DN21 2DY

Please also find attached tables

Should you require the attachment mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.