Breakfast, after-school clubs, and holiday programmes should be available in all schools, alongside family support workers, to provide safe places for children to play and learn, and to provide childcare needed to help working parents, it says.
It also claims that family hubs – of which there are currently 400 sites in the country – which it dubs the Government’s ‘alternative Sure Start’, will take more than 30 years to reach all the areas of disadvantage that Sure Start would have reached.
Between 2010 and 2022 Funding for Sure Start decreased by over two-thirds and over 1,340 centres closed.
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