A popular youth centre is to get a £760,000 revamp.

The Quad, in Carshalton, will become a youth hub, offering traditional youth club activities as well as more targeted work, aimed at helping some of the borough’s most vulnerable children and their families.

Plans being drawn up for the centre now are expected to include new interview rooms, a creche, teaching kitchen, medical room and office space for social and youth workers.

Sutton Council said the new, improved centre would allow young people and their families to receive targeted services from a central point within their neighbourhood, rather than having to travel between different centres throughout Sutton.

It is also intended to allow staff to work more effectively with children who are at risk of anti-social behaviour, being excluded from school and offending, and help to boost their life chances and opportunities.

The work will be partly funded by the sale of the Century youth centre, which the council said was underused.

Sutton Council’s executive approved the funds for the project on May 8.

Councillor Dave Callaghan, the council's executive member for children’s services, families and youth services, said: “This is fantastic news for young people in Carshalton and is the first step in our plans to create a fully-integrated youth service that produces the very best outcomes for Sutton’s children.

“We want to make it easier for all sections of our youth and family services to work together, and we think that physically bringing them together is a really important part of that.

“One of the great things about the plans for the Quad is that it’s going to be largely funded by the sale of the old Century youth centre.

"This means the money will be kept within the youth service to fund some really important work that will help to boost the life chances of some of our most vulnerable young people.”