This week's Special Report ('Combined forces', pages 12-13) talks to some of the workers and parents involved in Sure Start initiatives to find out about the innovative ways that they are helping families to help themselves.
Ambitious as the scheme is, its targets aim for only one-third of under-fours living in poverty by 2004. After the election, it will be vital to keep up the impetus to expand Sure Start and to make certain that the new ways of working that it involves are adopted by mainstream services.
Other highlights of this issue of Nursery World include guidance on one of the trickiest child behaviour issues for childcarers - biting ('A painful problem', pages 14-15). Find out more from the expert child psychotherapists from the Anna Freud Centre. And for nannies, there's our free monthly supplement Professional Nanny, a must-read for those working in the home.
