A leading children's charity has come to the defence of one children's centre for using taxis to pick up and drop off youngsters using its services.
4Children has claimed that Oak Meadow Children's Centre in Hampshire is well within its rights to use the mode of transport, Children and Young People Now has reported.
Indeed, Anne Longfield, chief executive of the charity, commended the idea adding that it could help get new children access to the centre's facilities.
"If the prime purpose of children's centres is to try to get people who would not normally use these services to access them, then you have to think creatively," she confirmed to the news provider.
"Public transport can put some people off from attending centres and in some areas the links are not there."
Centre manager Debbie Simmons has said that without the free taxis many families would be unable to use the Sure Start centre
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