Why should we believe Margaret Hodge? Why should the childcare community, both parents and professionals, trust that when the children's minister says the spirit of Sure Start will live on in the proposed 3,500 children's centres, she really means it and she can deliver it?
The truth is that we can't. But that isn't the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The great debate that has kicked off the New Year, between Ms Hodge and Norman Glass, the former Treasury official who was the chief architect of Sure Start, is a challenge to Hodge to put her money where her mouth is, to specify just what it is about Sure Start that will live and die in its new incarnation.
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