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Tell us: how did Sure Start help you or your child?

We would like to hear from people who benefited from New Labour’s early years programme

The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2024

Senior Labour figures call for ‘life-transforming’ Sure Start policy

Gordon Brown and three former education ministers say New Labour’s acclaimed early-years programme benefited millions

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2024

Charities evoke spirit of Sure Start in call for bold Labour early-years policies

First 1001 Days Movement says five-year decline in toddler development is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the UK

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024

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How a Conservative budget failed to help women (again)

A single man would gain £346 from tax cuts, compared with £279 for a woman and just £85 for the typical lone mother

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024

The Guardian view on investing in youth: bring back Sure Start and make it for teens too

Editorial: Youth services have been wrecked by cuts. They must be reformed, better funded and not just focused on crime prevention

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024

Labour should revive its inspired Sure Start scheme

Letters: Dr Sebastian Kraemer praises the children’s centres that provided for the poorest preschool children. Plus letters from John Anderson, Janet Lail, Gabrielle Palmer and a group of charities

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2024

Free childcare for 30 hours a week? It sounds too good to be true – and for worse-off families, it is

Early-years education can determine a child’s future – which is why a Labour government must make it a priority, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2023

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‘We are laying the path for these children’: why early years education should never be undervalued

The prominence Liverpool Hope University places on its early years education training and research reflects its commitment to help children and society

The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2023

There are lessons to be learned on nursery schools

Letters: Carolyn Meggitt, Lise Bosher and Sally Cheseldine respond to Labour’s plans for education for the under-fours

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2023

Belfast mum says Sure Start funding guarantee is "amazing news"

"I'll be honest, I was in the office and I did a wee jump and a dance and the girls were laughing, I was all bizz"

Belfast Live · Jun 1, 2023

Sure Start and youth services funding cuts avoided

The announcement that funding was being made available was made on Thursday.

Belfast Live · Jun 1, 2023

Gateshead councillors slam "pathetic" government funding for children and families

Councillors believe £3m of central government funding is no where near enough to help families and children in Gateshead

Chronicle Live · May 30, 2023

Sure Start director says childcare reform is for UK economy not children

Naomi Eisenstadt, first programme lead, says there is lack of attention on what childcare is actually for

The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2023

Sure Start potential cuts 'stripping away kids' futures' says NI mum

"At the end of the day it does take a village to raise a child, and Sure Start was our village in our time of need."

Belfast Live · May 16, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2023

Our first few years as a child can determine the rest of our lives

If we get those early years right, we can avoid so much harm later in life. So why don’t we properly support parents?, says Beverley Barnett-Jones of Nuffield Family Justice Observatory

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2023

‘I grew up at the margins’: Bridget Phillipson on teachers’ strikes, Ofsted, Brexit and Corbyn

The shadow education secretary is determined to put childcare reform at the heart of Labour’s policy – and stop Jeremy Hunt stealing her thunder

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2023

Children are a numbers game to Jeremy Hunt and his ilk

Letters: David Blunkett says the chancellor has distorted the truth about childcare in his budget statement, while Tony Roberts says the Tories have always misunderstood the importance of early years provision. Plus letters from Margaret Varley and Ursula Shone

The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2023

Childcare costs are the reason why many parents don’t return to work

Letters: Anne Johns bemoans the disappearance of au pairs, Anne Tyndale hopes for a return of Labour’s Sure Start programme, and Alice Schofield on affording childcare for twins

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The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2023

If Starmer wants a defining policy for government, this is it: childcare, childcare, childcare

Pen Green nursery’s plight shows why Labour again needs the radicalism of Sure Start, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Daily Mirror · Mar 9, 2023

Labour will ditch 'broken' Tory childcare model - instead of 'bolting on' free hours

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said it was time for a complete overhaul of the 'complex and confused' childcare system - and said 'bolting on' more hours would not fix it

Manchester Evening News · Feb 25, 2023

'I always dreamed of being a mum - I was told autism would stop me'

Terri Loughman, 39, wants to share her story to provide hope to other women

The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2022

Prisons are an overflowing, squalid, absurd waste of money. So why do the public want more of them?

We know longer sentences do more harm than good. Let’s focus our resources on threadbare public services instead, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2022

Loneliness is a struggle for new parents – can we all stop pretending everything’s ok?

Isolation, exacerbated by social pressure and cuts to services, can lead to postnatal depression, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Manchester Evening News · Jul 22, 2022

Row erupts after Salford Tory calls for 'cycle of young single mums in city to be broken'

Furious backlash from Salford's controlling Labour group

The Guardian - UK · Jul 1, 2022

What happened to us, the children of the 1960s? We have it all: we need to give some back

UK politics is in thrall to my postwar cohort. That’s to the country’s detriment, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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