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Centres advised to tackle poverty
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
19 September 2007
A stronger focus on ending poverty is required if children's centres are to be effective in improving outcomes for children, says a new report.
Capacity, a public interest body for children's services, analysed four high-achieving children's centres and found that they were focusing on tackling poverty as the main cause of poor health and under-achievement. The children's centres were also offering a much broader range of activities than currently required by the Government, and were using parents and other local people to forge strong community links. Margaret Lochrie, director of Capacity, said, 'You can't improve outcomes in the long term...
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