Has Conservative MP Nick Boles served a death warrant on Sure Start? In a speech to the Resolution Foundation this week he suggested it would be a good idea to cut this ambitious childcare and child ...

When centres offered high levels of service in poor areas, hospital visits fell among primary school age children Sure Start children’s centres delivered major health benefits for youngsters in the ...

Gabriella Conti receives funding from the Nuffield Foundation (grant number EYP 42289). She is a Research Fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a Trustee of Foundation Years Information and ...

New mum Sherrin Bergqvist lay in her bed in the early hours of a freezing January morning in tears. She had recently had her first child and expected to be blissfully happy. But anxiety and depression ...

Parents have explained how Sure Start children’s centres have been a “lifeline” for them, as the Sutton Trust reveals as many as 1,000 have closed since 2009. Sure Start is a national network of ...

Sure Start centres, aimed at improving early years health and education in England, brought "big benefits for children's health", researchers say. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found a ...

Gordon Brown was a proud advocate of the Sure Start scheme, which began in the late 1990s The Sure Start centres were set up to give more deprived children a better chance in life, but how much ...

Researchers say the number of closures is far higher than previously realised THE early years initiative has been hit by a fresh wave of criticism after it emerged that up to 1,000 centres may have ...

CENTRES that support parents with children aged under four and living in disadvantaged areas are providing extra help to families during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sure Start projects across the north ...

Labour's flagship scheme to help poor toddlers and children must be scrapped, an influential think-tank said yesterday. Axeing the £10billion Sure Start network would do no harm to vulnerable ...

Savoury treats for all the family A small group of parents interested in home-cooked food for their families had the idea of producing a community cookbook. Sure Start is a government initiative to ...