Policy and Politics
BIG ISSUE: Cuts to Sure Start Children's Centres
As local authorities struggle to deal with budget cuts, children's centes around the country are at risk of closure.
Manchester's children's centres to stay open, but council daycare to go
Manchester city council has confirmed that it will keep all its 39...
Funding scheme launched for parents campaigning against cuts to children's centres
Daycare Trust and Unison have joined forces to provide grants to support...
To The Point - Cuts by the thick skinned
I have recently moved to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in South Yorkshire,...
Protests as Doncaster Council prepares to run children's centres in-house
Residents have raised concerns that services at Doncaster children's centres will deteriorate...
Sure Start a policy success but has 'lost the babies', says founder Naomi Eisenstadt
The Sure Start programme has achieved a great deal and become a...
47 children's centres will close, shadow children's minister's survey reveals
Forty-seven children's centres have either been closed or earmarked for closure within...
Sure Start: Norfolk County Council - Community trust plans to boost centre services
Sure Start has achieved a lot in the deprived area of Great...
Exclusive: The Minister's View - New goals are set out
The first five years, the foundation years, are absolutely critical. We know...
Sure Start: Sure Start: Liverpool City Council - battling to deal with an £11.5m funding shortfall
While Liverpool is feeling the pain of drastic cuts, it is determined...
Children's centre 'outstanding', despite job and funding losses
A Westminster children's centre that lost thousands of pounds in funding cuts...
Ring-fence our Sure Start services, parents demand
A group of Hampshire parents who took a petition with 22,000 signatures...
Sure Start: Birmingham City Council - responding to local families
Integrated working and family support are Birmingham's priority amid Sure Start cuts...
Centre parents take councils to court
Legal action has been filed with the High Court in London against...
Children's centres stay open but parents vow to continue fight against cuts
Hampshire County Council has committed itself to protecting all of its 81...
Lack of awareness hampers access to children's centres
Misconceptions and a lack of awareness about the services on offer are...
Sure Start - City of Westminster - Committed to a new vision for teamwork
In this new series Mary Evans takes an in-depth look at how...
Analysis: Reshaping local authority services
Cuts in funding from central Government are forcing local authorities to take...
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