Nursery World - Minister answers MPs on Sure Start

New statutory guidance for Sure Start children's centres will soon be up for consultation with the Government, Sarah Teather told a committee of MPs this week.

The children's minister was speaking at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sure Start to give her initial response to the group's interim report.

The ongoing inquiry aims to assess the impact of significant changes to the way that children's centre services are being delivered and reorganised in the wake of cuts to local authority budgets.

The guidance will be 'more about services than buildings' and will try to make the role of children's centres clearer, Ms Teather said.

This follows the new core purpose of children's centres, published last year, which the children's minister said makes clear that the prime purpose of centres is 'to narrow gaps' and focuses on outcomes.

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