Labour Friends of Sure Start (LLFoS) have urged every Labour council to make protecting children’s centres in disadvantaged areas a spending priority, and avoid any further closures.
Their new pamphlet, ‘Sure Start, What Future?’, which features reflections on how to keep children’s centres alive for the next five years, was contributed to by shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt, shadow children and families minister Sharon Hodgson, chair of the Early Intervention Foundation Graham Allen and deputy leader of Brent Council Michael Pavey.
Both Mr Hunt and deputy leader of Brent Council Michael Pavey acknowledge that keeping centres open will not be easy.
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