New good-practice guidance for Sure Start Children's Centres was launched alongside the five reports into Sure Start's effectiveness in an attempt to address the concerns raised in the evaluation of the programme.
The guidance offers advice on how to reach the most alienated groups in the community through outreach and home visiting and gives information on monitoring and record-keeping.
The guidance says that families using the services should experience support that 'evidence shows' will make a difference to children's outcomes - rather than offering activities that may be valuable 'solely for the contact they enable between parents and practitioners'.
The Government said in the guidance that it is 'determined to see the challenges highlighted' by the evalution addressed, and that it is developing a 'performance management framework' to ensure that the guidance is implemented.
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