Keighley district’s six children’s centres have been saved from the axe.

Centres in Highfield, Strong Close, Braithwaite, Silsden, Haworth and Exley Head will each lose one per cent from their budgets.

But Bradford Council, which provides the funding, has pledged that the most any of them will lose will be £2,000 each.

Parents feared some of the Bradford district’s 41 children’s centres would either close or have their services massively reduced.

But the Council, which had to slash millions of pounds from its overall budget for 2011/12, saw the centres as a priority.

The centres support pre-school children and their families with early learning, childcare and health, training and employment advice.

The Rainbow Centre in Braithwaite and the Highfield Centre both recently gained “excellent” grades from Ofsted inspectors.

The Daisy Chain Centre in Silsden opened last year and the Treetops Centre in Haworth is due to open soon.

Another children’s centre is attached to Strong Close Nursery, off the Marley roundabout, and Low Fold Family Centre is in Oakworth Road.

Coun Ralph Berry, the Council’s executive member for children’s services, confirmed that all 41 centres would remain open with a one per cent cut in funding.

He said: “We have had to make a series of tough decisions about spending but we hope that the small cut to children’s centre budgets will mean no jobs are lost and services can continue to the same level as before.”