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Children's centres should place more emphasis on home visits to reach the most disadvantaged families, new practice guidance for local authorities is advising. Children's minister Beverley Hughes said...
Some children's centres in Southend will become full daycare settings for disadvantaged two-year-olds, in plans put out for consultation to re-organise Sure Start services.
Some local authorities will be able to delay opening children's centres after March 2008 to meet 'a more realistic timescale'.
A number of children's centres could aim to provide support for both young and old people, following a new report that calls for bridging the generation gap.
Manchester is set to axe universal children's centres services and commission the private and voluntary sector to take over its maintained daycare provision, according to the council's proposed budget...
Many disadvantaged families are still being failed by the children's centre programme, according to delegates and speakers at last week's annual Sure Start conference in London.
The Government wants to see qualified teachers attached to children's centres, delegates at a major conference in London were told last week. The role teachers will play was one of the issues raised...
Heads of early years services have warned that the level of capital funding from the Government for the second wave of children's centres is inadequate and will pose a massive challenge to reaching...
Action for Children says the Government is 'letting families down' as it finds that four in ten children's centres have not been inspected for over five years.
The London Borough of Southwark has released details of its children's centre programme, which will bring the total number of centres to 21 by 2008. Work has already begun on the first phase of the...