From The Learning Trust website: A children’s centre is a place where you can access a range of different services based under one roof to help you and your family. Hackney’s children’s centres will deliver a range of services, working closley with schools, GPs and other local service providers to ensure continuous support to children and their families. Children Centres based in schools will be intrinsically linked to the school, however a place at the children's centre will not give you priority to a school place.