IFS: £2.5bn Sure Start delivered ‘substantial benefits’
09/04/2024 Children eligible for free school meals who grew up near a Sure Start centre performed up to three grades better at GCSEs than those further away, IFS finds. |
Former children’s commissioner calls for ‘Sure Start Plus’
04/11/2022 The Government should establish a Sure Start Plus programme that could be targeted at teenagers who are at risk of exploitation, former commissioner says. |
Sure Start had ‘major benefits’ for disadvantaged children, think tank says
04/06/2019 The twenty-year-old childcare programme has had major health benefits for children in poorer neighbourhoods, a new analysis reveals. |
Up to 1,000 Sure Start children's centres have closed since 2009
05/04/2018 As many as 1,000 Sure Start children's centres could have closed in the last eight years - double the amount estimated by the Government - new research has warned. |
20 years of Sure Start
13/02/2018 2018 celebrates 20 years of Sure Start: But where are Britain's children's centres now? Martyn Allan investigates. |
Shell is helping power the journey towards a circular paving industry with Shell Bitumen LT R, a new product for roads that uses plastics destined for landfill as part of the additives to make the bitumen.
Effective Energy Group is now offering its support to the 40 Local Authorities who have received a share of the £430m to deliver their projects on the ground by surveying properties and installing measures.
Dougie Belmore explains how one of the main interfaces between you and Bacs is about to change.