Nottingham City Council’s Registration Service is implementing a programme to bring Registration closer to the community.

In January 2008 a full time service to register births and deaths was launched at both City Hospital and Queens Medical Centre which has proved very successful.

Building on this success, the team are launching a service in partnership with the leading charity, NCH Action for Children to register births at Sure Start Children’s Centres in Aspley and Broxtowe. This service will start on 8th September and parents can register their babies on an informal drop in basis while accessing other family support services at both centres. It is planned to extend the service to Clifton Sure Start Children’s Centre shortly afterwards.

Councillor Graham Chapman, Deputy Leader of Nottingham City Council, said: "This is a simple and sensible way of making it easier for people to register births, at the places they are already going to instead of having to make special journeys at a time when it may be difficult to do so. It's another example of us trying to make our services easy to access at a community level."

Lucy Lee, Superintendent Registrar agrees and added: "This is a very exciting progression for the Nottingham City Registration Service and will benefit many new parents by providing a ‘one stop shop’ service to help ease the burden on new parents."