The way Sure Start children's centre managers and staff face up to the funding cuts and reorganisation programmes that are sweeping across the country may depend on whether they see change as an opportunity or a threat.
In a deprived corner of the Norfolk coast, the decision by the county council to put its children's centres on the market has been welcomed as a door opening, rather than a door closing. 'This is an opportunity for us,' says Andrew Forrest, chief executive of the Great Yarmouth Community Trust, which was set up ten years ago as a successor body to the town's trailblazing Sure Start partnership.
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