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Local programmes found ineffectual
By Nicole Weinstein,
Nursery World,
8 December 2005
The Government's flagship £3bn Sure Start programme has had 'little impact' on children and families in Britain's most deprived areas, according to early findings from an independent study. Research undertaken by London University's Birkbeck College in 2003 and 2004 and released last week found 'limited evidence' of effects of Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) on mothers of nine-month-old and three-year-old children. Effects that had emerged, whether positive or negative, were described in the evaluation as 'small in magnitude'.
The Government's flagship £3bn Sure Start programme has had 'little impact' on children and families in Britain's most deprived areas, according to...
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