Children’s centres
Our children’s centres welcome all families and provide a wide range of services to give children the best start in life.
We offer:
- Early education integrated with childcare
- Free activities for babies and toddlers 0-5 years
- Child and family health services
- Family friendly support services
- Meet other parents and carers
- Community volunteering opportunities
- A journey to employment – support with work or training
- Register (free) by filling in the form at the bottom of this page.
For comprehensive information on all aspects of our children’s centres, visit our Family Information Service website. The website lists all details bar the timetable of activities, which you can access for all four children’s centre hubs below.
Register with us for FREE
Click the ‘register now’ button or scroll down the page.
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Where you can find our centres
There are four hubs and three satellites across Reading which deliver services to our communities.
See our annual parenting programme for activitiesplanned up to February 2026.
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Have a read of our children’s centre booklet for more details about what we offer.
Register with us
To benefit from any of our fantastic, free services, you will need to register with our children’s centres.
Our registration and booking process is managed via our Parents’ Portal. The Parents’ Portal is the platform used for school admissions, early years funding and children’s centres. To register and to book sessions you’ll now need to create a Parents’ Portal account.
Once you’ve created your account, you’ll be able to register with us and book on to sessions at your local children’s centre.
PLEASE NOTE:
From Monday 14 July, the way you log in to the Parents’ Portal will change. To make things simpler and more secure, Reading Borough Council is introducing Single Sign On (SSO) using My Reading Account. This is the same account you may already use for other Reading Borough Council services. To implement SSO, the Parents’ Portal will be unavailable for 24 hours from 10am on Monday 14 July.
You can find step-by-step instructions, FAQs and troubleshooting tips to help guide you through the process – click the button above.
If you need more information you can email our children’s centres and someone will get back to you.
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Our teams
Family workers and family group workers offer support to meet individual family needs, this can be within the hubs or within family homes.
If you are looking for individual support within the home with one of our family workers, you can access this service via our Children’s Single Point of Access (CSPoA).
We offer a variety of support groups throughout the year; we aim to meet the needs within our communities for children 0–5 years old.
These sessions are designed to support your children with their development and to enable you to have the skills to positively parent your children.
You can join in with fun activities and find out about all the latest sessions we offer on our Facebook page.
Children’s Centres believe in working closely with community groups to help provide a wider service to the local community.
We pride ourselves on supporting volunteer groups to extended services to families.
This could include: working with volunteer groups such as Home Start, community volunteers who set groups up within our buildings such as Dad’s Club and supporting external community groups where needed.
In partnership with New Directions Reading, we offer various formal learning courses in english, maths and childcare plus informal bespoke courses, which can offer a stepping stone to future employment.
Within our formal offer, there is an opportunity to access our free crèche places for children aged 3 months to 5 years.
For more information, email us reading.childrencentres@brighterfutruesforchildren.org