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 ...

But the think tank warns Sure Start centres have had declining support. Spending peaked in 2010 at £1.8bn (in current value) but was cut by two-thirds to £600m by 2017-18 - and about 500 centres ...

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 – ...

We know that in April 2010 there were 3,631 Sure Start Centres in England according to the Department for Education (DfE). From the same place we also know that at the end of April this year that ...

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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 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.

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-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.