East Sussex County Council's network of children's centres has begun a project to set up Facebook pages for each of its 31 centres.
In a pilot project three centres in Crowborough, Rye and the Churchwood Centre in Hastings are launching pages this month, enabling young families easy access to information about the centre and their activities, as well as the opportunity to keep in touch.
If the trials are successful the plan is to create pages for the remaining 28 centres in the new year.
Cllr Nick Bennett, the County Council's Lead Member for Learning and School Effectiveness, said: “We know a lot of people are using social media to keep in touch with each other and to keep up-to-date with groups and organisations they are involved with.
“Our plan with this project is to create social media communities around each children's centre which will enable young families to get easy access to information on activities at the centres, as well as ask questions of each other and staff.”
Cllr Bennett added children's centres provide a range of support services for young families with children aged 0-5, including activity groups, support groups, childcare, health services, family support, and employment advice. They also provide a wide range of other activities tailored to the needs of the local community.
“If we can build a social media community around each children's centre page, we'll also be able to use it to have a conversation with families about the services we are providing and how we could improve them.”
He urged families registered with the Crowborough and Rye Children's Centres and the Churchwood Centre in Hastings to visit the relevant Facebook page and “like” it.
“We're always looking for new ways of making our services easier to access and to finding ways of being in closer contact with families who use our services. The more people that like the pages, the more effective they will be.” He said.
The first three children's centres Facebook pages can be found at:
Rye Children's Centre on Facebook
Churchwood Children's Centre on Facebook
Crowborough Children's Centre on Facebook
For more information on the Children's Centres network in East Sussex see:
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