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Family Hubs to open in every council area

07/07/2025

The Government has announced a plan to open 1,000 Sure Start-inspired Family Hubs by 2028 to help deliver support to parents in every council area in England.

'Burning platform' warning on early years' services

05/06/2025

Early years’ services are on a ‘burning platform’ with UK outcomes among the ‘worst in the civilized world’, a leader has warned.

Sure Start financial benefits could double costs, finds IFS

21/05/2025

The financial benefits of the Sure Start early years programme could be twice as high as its costs, according to new analysis.

Sure Start Centres reduced criminal offending, says IFS

23/10/2024

Young people who had lived near a Sure Start centre between the age of 0 to 4-years-old were 20% less likely to have a custodial sentence, think-tank finds.

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.

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LGOF: Will it work?

Dr Jonathan Carr-West, LGIU, discusses the Local Government Outcomes Framework (LGOF), the latest instalment in the history of local government accountability.
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