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By Simon Vevers,
Nursery World,
18 January 2007
An assessment of the children's centre programme based on visits to centres around the country points up what it may need to succeed. Simon Vevers reports The clock is ticking. The Government has 14 months to reach its target of 2,500 children's centres by 2008. By last September there were 1,000 centres, made up of around 500 Sure Start Local programmes, 420 neighbourhood nurseries and 70 early excellence centres - a rapid acceleration of the programme from September 2005, when there were 350.
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