Sure Start centres were designed for parents of children under five to access integrated support around health, education and parenting Children from low-income families who grew up near a Sure Start ...

With the Pre-School Learning Alliance warning that most of its children’s centres are incurring unsustainable losses, Mark Hunter examines whether Sure Start has veered too far from the government’s ...

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Labour has been urged to launch a massive expansion of family centres under the Sure Start brand to fend off Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. A commission backed by Labour peer Hilary Armstrong has said a ...

Families of children with special educational needs and disabilities will be able to access early support in their local communities through revamped versions of Sure Start centres. Councils have been ...

Labour would reimpose a requirement on local councils to provide childcare via Sure Start centres in a bid to "save" the network and ease chronic shortages of places , shadow education secretary ...

An afternoon in tribute to Tessa Jowell marking 20 years since the first Sure Start programmes. What has been learned since, where next? January 2019 marks twenty years since Tessa Jowell, then Public ...

Councils want the freedom to spend Sure Start money on other early intervention funding, directors told the education select committee this morning. Councils want the freedom to spend Sure Start money ...

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