Nursery World - Leading the way (3)

Involving the locals is the basis of a paragon of integrated services in a deprived area. Nicole Curnow reports When Steve Canning was hired to develop one of the country's first trailblazer local Sure Start programmes in a deprived area of Plymouth, Devon, he had little more than a box of files, a makeshift office - and a vision.

When Steve Canning was hired to develop one of the country's first trailblazer local Sure Start programmes in a deprived area of Plymouth, Devon, he had little more than a box of files, a makeshift office - and a vision.

His brief was to establish Sure Start North Prospect LARK Project (the LARK project) on and around the site of North Prospect Community School in the Ham ward of Plymouth.

'I wanted to create a programme that would be managed by local parents - one that would encapsulate the whole ethos of Sure Start and put local people at the heart of its delivery,' says Steve.

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