Study finds Sure Start benefitted children’s long-term health
New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reveals that children who accessed Sure...
Cuts to Sure Start Children's Centres
As local authorities struggle to deal with budget cuts, children's centres around the country are at risk of closure.
New Government figures reveal true scale of children's centre closures
More than 1,300 children’s centres closed between 2010 and 2019, newly-published Government figure...
Conservative councillors say cuts to children's services are causing harm
A new poll reveals widespread fears among Conservative councillors about the impact of cuts to...
Bucks children’s centre campaigners lose in High Court
Campaigners fighting to keep children’s centres open in Buckinghamshire have lost their case in the...
Bucks children's centre campaigners await High Court decision on closures
A legal challenge against Buckinghamshire County Council’s decision to shut more than half of its...
High court to rule on council's children’s centre closure
A high court judge is to decide whether the move by Buckinghamshire County Council to close 19 of...
Children's centre use drops dramatically
The number of children using children’s centres has fallen by nearly 20 per cent, with a sharp drop...
Sure Start cut hospital visits for children in deprived areas
Sure Start children’s centres significantly reduced hospitalisations for children in poorer...
East Sussex children's centres could close
Fourteen children’s centres in East Sussex have been earmarked for closure in an attempt to cut...
Children's centres face ongoing decline in numbers
Lambeth Council has approved the closure of five of its children’s centres, while those in other...
Children's centres face ongoing fight for survival in 2019
The new year may be just a few days old, but children’s centres in Surrey and the London borough of...
Cash-strapped council plans to axe children's centre teachers
Teachers working in Leicester City’s children’s centres are at risk of losing their jobs because the...
Major cuts to Essex children's centre services
Essex County Council has named the children’s centres that will close, following a consultation into...
More than half of Rotherham's children's centres at risk
Thirteen children’s centres in Rotherham are under threat of closure in a council bid to make...
Children's centre cluster rated inadequate
A children’s centre group in East Reading has been rated inadequate by Ofsted in its first...
DfE deletes evidence of Sure Start closures from website
The Department for Education has removed all figures on the number of Sure Start centres that have...
MPs say it is not clear 'who Sure Start children's centres are for'
The Government must take early years provision more seriously with a long-term vision, a cross-party...
Children's centre group graded as 'requires improvement'
A group of two children’s centres in Bournemouth has been rated as ‘requires improvement’ in its...
Oxfordshire children's centres saved from closure
Oxfordshire County Council has backtracked on proposals to close some of its children’s centres,...
Dudley Council makes u-turn over plans to close children's centres
Plans to close a third of children’s centres in Dudley have been abandoned after parents campaigned...
Early years experts spark debate about future of children's centres
Early years experts and organisations are calling for a national debate on how children’s centres...
Children's centres in the North East could face axe
Parents in Gateshead have set up a campaign to save local children’s centres in response to further...
Children's centres closing despite high demand
At the same time that a record number of families are using children's centres, a number of centres...
Unison says charity bent consultation time rules
Unison has lodged a tribunal claim against Action for Children on behalf of 130 children's centre...
Children's centres to reduce childcare staff
Around one in five children's centres are planning on making childcare staff and teachers redundant...
City's children's centres cut daycare provision to focus on outreach services
Manchester City Council has hit back at reports that it intends to close its children's centres and...
Sure Start: Norfolk County Council - Community trust plans to boost centre services
Sure Start has achieved a lot in the deprived area of Great Yarmouth - and despite drastic funding...
Sure Start: Sure Start: Liverpool City Council - battling to deal with an 11.5m funding shortfall
While Liverpool is feeling the pain of drastic cuts, it is determined to maintain vital services for...
Centre parents take councils to court
Legal action has been filed with the High Court in London against Hampshire County Council and...
Sure Start - City of Westminster - Committed to a new vision for teamwork
In this new series Mary Evans takes an in-depth look at how cuts to local authority budgets are...
Cuts Watch: Children's centres put out to tender but 'will remain open'
Sandwell Council in the West Midlands is inviting tenders from third parties to take over the...
Analysis: Reshaping local authority services
Cuts in funding from central Government are forcing local authorities to take a different approach...
Cuts Watch: Hub and spoke plan for reduced centres
Plans to cut 1.7m from children's centres in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham have been...
Cuts Watch: Seven children's centres are saved
Seven children's centres in Stoke-on-Trent have been saved from the axe following local opposition...
Cuts Watch: What's happening to children's centres around the country
Our regular round-up of how Sure Start is faring in different local authorities.
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