Nursery World - Rural areas get 40m boost for Sure Start

* A new 40m funding package aims to tackle child poverty and improve health in rural areas across England. The funding, to be introduced over the next three years, is designed to extend to 20,000 children in poorer rural areas the services already provided by Sure Start programmes. These include mobile playbuses also offering computer training for parents, mobile health clinics in areas without surgeries, transport to advice centres for health or financial issues, and access to childcare.

The funding, to be introduced over the next three years, is designed to extend to 20,000 children in poorer rural areas the services already provided by Sure Start programmes. These include mobile playbuses also offering computer training for parents, mobile health clinics in areas without surgeries, transport to advice centres for health or financial issues, and access to childcare.

Announcing the package last week at a conference in London on child poverty organised by the National Children's Bureau, health minister Yvette Cooper said, 'Rural Sure Start is recognition that the countryside also suffers poverty and problems of access to services.'

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