The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & EntertainmentHuge boost for parents as revamped Sure Starts to give specialist support
HGourlayUCLSome good news here on improving matters for children and families: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/08/labour-best-start-britain-children #education #surestart #beststart
Donald RoyThis is a serious programme based on the ex post evaluation of #surestart - which generated far more benefits than it cost. Spoiler alert! Last month I attended a conference organised by the #ifs on precisely this subject. It ended with a conversation with the ultimate - if relatively benign ! - #centristdad - #edballs . Better him than #bigballs determining policy!
Dave Jackson
AutisticMumTo3‘I’m mother who was given a lifeline by Sure Start – now I’m studying for a PhD’
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/i-m-mother-who-was-given-a-lifeline-by-sure-start-now-i-m-studying-for-a-phd/ar-BB1lD4yi?ei=11
SubtleBlade ⚔️‘Gift of hope and confidence’: parents recall how #SureStart was a lifeline
As calls grow for #Labour to reinstate the centres for #EarlyYears support, we hear from some of those who saw its benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/10/sure-start-centres-early-years-support-families
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StorygirljoThe deliberate eradication of Sure Start by the Tories has that same feeling as Trump eliminating Obamacare - it was a great success of someone they perceived as an enemy. It wasn't their toxic ideology, it wasn't corruption - it was simple infantile pettiness.
#SureStart
Senior #Labour figures call for ‘life-transforming’ #SureStart #policy
#GordonBrown and three former #education ministers say New Labour’s acclaimed early-years programme benefited millions
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/09/senior-labour-figures-call-for-life-transforming-sure-start-policy
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Charities evoke spirit of #SureStart in call for bold #Labour #EarlyYears policies
#First1001DaysMovement says five-year decline in toddler development is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the UK
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/18/charities-evoke-spirit-of-sure-start-in-call-for-bold-labour-early-years-policies
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Stingray's Badger Friend#SureStart had a massive positive outcome for children. It provided free support and local hubs for all families of young children, and helped support parents.
Now children and families are neglected, this is a ticking time bomb of poor physical and mental health outcomes, and impaired functioning for a generation
For our national health and wellbeing we need SureStart back