Sure Start

Founded in 1998, there are more than 3,600 Sure Start children’s centres in England.

History

• Naomi Eisenstadt, Providing a Sure Start: How Government Discovered Early Childhood (Policy Press, 2011).
• “Parenting in Sure Start services for children at risk of developing conduct disorder: pragmatic randomised trial,” British Medical Journal, 2007, 334: 678. (supportive study that went unreported in the mainstream media)

Cuts

• Hannah Richardson, "Mothers take Sure Start cuts fight to Downing Street" BBC, 3 April 2011.
• Tracy McVeigh, "Child poverty warning as cuts threaten to close 3,500 Sure Start centres", The Observer, 13 November 2011.
• "Manchester Sure Starts saved", Socialist Party, 6 February 2012.
• Laura Mannion, "Hundreds of Liverpool Sure Start parents demonstrate against cuts", Socialist Party, 23 April 2012.
• Rachel Williams, "Empty promise of 'open' Sure Start centres", The Guardian, 7 August 2012.

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch

• Naomi Eisenstadt - former founding director (1999- 2006)
• Rob Smith
• Tim Robertson