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 ...

The Conservatives are responsible for a collapse in the number Sure Start children’s centres since 2010, Labour has said. According to figures obtained by the party, there are now 1,240 fewer centres ...

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 ...

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 ...

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