Has Conservative MP Nick Boles served a death warrant on Sure Start? In a speech to the Resolution Foundation this week he suggested it would be a good idea to cut this ambitious childcare and child ...
New mum Sherrin Bergqvist lay in her bed in the early hours of a freezing January morning in tears. She had recently had her first child and expected to be blissfully happy. But anxiety and depression ...
When Labour launched its campaign to "save" Sure Start children's centres from Tory spending cuts last week, it thrust the nappy vote into the centre of British politics. There can be no better way of ...
Gabriella Conti receives funding from the Nuffield Foundation (grant number EYP 42289). She is a Research Fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a Trustee of Foundation Years Information and ...
Kids and toddlers who lived near Sure Start centres were less likely to end up on a path of crime as a youngster, research shows. Access to the early years centres, introduced by New Labour, also ...
How England’s scrapped Sure Start centres boosted the health and education of disadvantaged children
The Sure Start programme was launched in 1999, with centres set up in communities across England to offer support to the most disadvantaged families. These centres had significant investment and a ...
Parents have explained how Sure Start children’s centres have been a “lifeline” for them, as the Sutton Trust reveals as many as 1,000 have closed since 2009. Sure Start is a national network of ...
Labour's flagship scheme to help poor toddlers and children must be scrapped, an influential think-tank said yesterday. Axeing the £10billion Sure Start network would do no harm to vulnerable ...
Sure Start centres, aimed at improving early years health and education in England, brought "big benefits for children's health", researchers say. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found a ...
Children from low-income families who grew up near a Sure Start centre did better than their peers at GCSEs, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Its research says those living near a centre ...
CENTRES that support parents with children aged under four and living in disadvantaged areas are providing extra help to families during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sure Start projects across the north ...
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