Children's Centres: Closures
(asked on 12th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2016 to Question 55895, on children's centres: closures, in which regions such centres closed in each such year.
This question was answered on 15th December 2016
Based on the information supplied by local authorities the numbers of centres closed year by year in each region is given in the table below:
| England | North East | North West | Yorks & Humber | East Mids | West Mids | Eastern | London | South East | South West |
2010 | 0 |
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2011 | 12 |
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| 11 |
| 1 |
2012 | 27 | 5 | 1 |
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| 8 | 4 | 9 |
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2013 | 33 | . | 4 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 23 | . | 3 |
2014 | 85 | 11 | 2 | 13 |
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| 22 | 13 | 12 | 12 |
2015 | 156 | 29 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 49 |
| 39 | 3 | 2 |
Total | 313 | 45 | 33 | 19 | 3 | 58 | 27 | 95 | 15 | 18 |