Main aims of the strategy

There are three aims and specifications of Harrow’s Children’s Centre strategy, each of which have targets associated with them.

These are:

1. To enable children in all parts of Harrow to have access to a full range of achievement and prevention - focused, integrated services through children’s centres
2. To link the sixteen children’s centres with the work of extended school clusters
3. To ensure that all the main centres have developed themes of expertise to incorporate local needs which will be linked to:

• Local and national data
• Other strategies and key developments including: Early years foundation stage data profile information,
• Parenting Strategy and Health Visitors Strategy

To develop phase three children’s centres to be outreach - focused.

Strategy targets Harrow has been set a target of developing sixteen children’s centres across the borough reaching 14,200 children. This target has been set by government and is based on:

• Harrow having an under fives population of 14,200
• 892 under fives living in Harrow’s areas of disadvantage that fall in the bottom 30% wards according to the Indices of Deprivation.

As of January 2010 we have recorded reaching 2,631 children in a total of 3,414 families. This figure will grow subject to better information capturing for all services provided.