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Clare Tickell: We run some very good children’s centres. Who should provide children’s centres is the wrong question. For my money, the important things are the ingredients of a good children’s centre: it is genuinely at the heart of the community, it reflects the community, it involves the citizens of the community, and it demonstrably puts the needs of children and their families first in its arrangements. That means that different people are best at providing services in different places. Prescription is not helpful.