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Health Visitors: Children's Centres

Volume 508: debated on Tuesday 6 April 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many Sure Start (a) centres and (b) health visitors there are in each London borough; and how many such (i) centres and (ii) health visitors he expects there to be in each London borough in each of the next five years. (323776)

The following table details how many designated Sure Start children's centres there were in each London borough at the end of February 2010, and how many are planned to open or merge for the rest of 2010.

Local authority

Designated children's centres at end of February 2010

Net expected increase due to planned designations and mergers for rest of 2010

Barking and Dagenham

16

2

Barnet

18

4

Bexley

13

3

Brent

15

5

Bromley

19

3

Camden

17

0

Croydon

26

0

Ealing

22

6

Enfield

24

0

Greenwich

24

1

Hackney

19

1

Hammersmith and Fulham

15

0

Haringey

17

2

Harrow

13

3

Havering

13

1

Hillingdon

12

6

Hounslow

14

4

Islington

16

0

Kensington and Chelsea

8

0

Kingston upon Thames

11

0

Lambeth

29

-1

Lewisham

17

2

London, City of

1

0

Merton

11

0

Newham

20

0

Redbridge

14

8

Richmond upon Thames

9

3

Southwark

21

0

Sutton

14

0

Tower Hamlets

23

0

Waltham Forest

17

0

Wandsworth

23

1

Westminster, City of

15

0

There are currently no further children's centres planned beyond 2010. Figures for the number of current health visitors working in children's centres in each London borough, and the numbers expected in the next five years, are not collected centrally.