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with some also offering early learning and day care for pre-school children. The IFS has previously said funding for Sure Start fell by more than two thirds after the change in government and over ...

Access to a Sure Start centre boosted academic performance through primary and secondary school, seeing children perform 0.8 grades better at GCSE level than those who lived further away. Impacts were ...

Naomi Eisenstadt, the first director of Sure Start, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government was investing "a lot more money" on pre-school aged children. She said the impact the project ...

The Sure Start programme was launched in 1999 ... and children had access to support services before they reached school age. This was a positive factor highlighted in the IFS report.

In April 2024, the Institute for Fiscal Studies presented new evidence on the benefits of Sure Start under the last Labour government. Children who had access to this ‘one-stop shop’ of support did ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A town council is refusing to give up on a former Sure Start and infant school site after making a last-ditch effort to keep the ...