From www.hackney.gov.uk - Main Aims: Your local Children's Centre provides childcare and early education for your children from when they are babies until they start school. Children's Centres also support networks for local childminders. You can access family support, advice and parenting classes. There are plenty of activities and 'stay and play' sessions. There's also a Day Nursery (with spaces for up to 41 children aged 15 months to five years) and a toy library and accident prevention loan scheme and families may borrow quality educational toys and baby and child safety equipment. For further information on childcare facilities in the borough, please contact Hackney Childcare Information Service 020 8820 7590/7583.