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Children's centres 'not reaching needy families', says Sure Start
By Karen Faux,
Nursery World,
26 September 2007
Many disadvantaged families are still being failed by the children's centre programme, according to delegates and speakers at last week's annual Sure Start conference in London.
Despite the expansion of services, professionals working with centres said that they struggle to bring the people through their doors who would benefit from services the most. Panellist Diane Kilgour, extended schools co-ordinator at Colbayns Community Centre in Essex, said 'We've heard about all the good intentions, but in the real world those providing these services are exhausted and over-worked. We are having to deal with sometimes three generations of families who have always...
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