Scots rate Sure Start success

By Alison Mercer, Nursery World, 30 May 2002

An evaluation of the Sure Start Scotland programme has found huge enthusiasm for the initiative, with one interviewee going so far as to say, 'Sure Start Scotland is one of the best things that the Scottish Executive has come up with.' The evaluation of the first two years of the programme found that it had reached over 15,000 children and 6,000 parents. The Scottish Executive has allocated £80m funding for the first five years, to be distributed to all local authorities on a weighted basis to reflect population, deprivation and rural location.

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