St Cuthbert's and Palatine Children's Centre is an outstanding children's centre on the site of, and run by, St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School in Blackpool. The town is the sixth most deprived in the country and the reach area of the centre is ranked as among the highest 10 per cent to 20 per cent most disadvantaged in the country. A high proportion of families meet the 2013 and the 2014 eligibility criteria. The centre provides the two-, threeand four-year-old early learning entitlement and has supported two-year-olds for some time.
Nurturing is integral to the centre's work. Over the past seven years, local parents have been encouraged into childcare volunteering, supported to gain qualifications and ultimately employment in the local market. Eighty per cent of the practitioners working at this centre were originally parent volunteers. This shows how we can grow our own workforce and support parents into employment, while involving them in family learning for the benefit of two-year-olds.
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