'Lifelong Learning and the Early Years' is part of a two-yearindependent Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, sponsored bythe National Institute of Adult Continuing Education.
Children's centres provide learning opportunities linked to health,diet, child development and parents with some providing numeracy andliteracy courses.But there is no requirement for them to have a'definable employment goal,' according to Margaret Lochrie, director ofCapacity, a public interest body for children's services, who wrote thepaper for the study.
Ms Lochrie would like to see Sure Start Children's Centres rebranded asinter-generational learning centres.
She said, 'Most poor children live in homes which are workless or whereparents are in low-paid work.
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