The Sure Start children’s centres programme, introduced in 1999 by the last Labour government, has had its spending cut by two-thirds since 2010 and more than 500 centres have officially been ...

Sure Start is a national network of children’s centres built up before 2010 to support disadvantaged children and their families. These centres have offered parents a support network, as well as ...

Since 2010, over 1,300 Sure Start and children’s centres have closed. Those that remain have been hollowed out, providing fewer services to fewer families. More broadly, between 2010 – 11 and 2020 – ...

THE early years initiative has been hit by a fresh wave of criticism after it emerged that up to 1,000 centres may have closed in the past decade. But what is Sure Start, where are the centres and … ...

Sure start-style schemes could save the NHS £600 million a year by reducing the number of children requiring hospital treatment by 13,000, a study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found.

Some Sure Start managers are under so much pressure that they have lost track of spending, according to the director of the national evaluation of Sure Start. His comments follow the latest evaluation ...

Labour's flagship scheme to help underprivileged children became a financial failure, watchdogs have told Whitehall. They accuse the Sure Start scheme of wasting huge amounts of its £1billion budget ...

It is predictable that the Labour Party’s election pledge to expand Sure Start has turned into a row over how many children’s centres have actually closed since the coalition government took ...

Sure Start supports the families of around 1,600 infants and young children up to the age of four, with around half of these using the organisation each week. Daily Headlines Newsletter.