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What are Sure Start Children's Centres?

Sure Start Children’s Centres are places where children under 5 years old and their families can receive seamless integrated services and information, and where they can access help from multi-disciplinary teams of professionals.

 For details of the range of services offered by children’s centres visit What's on offer The Government is committed to delivering a Sure Start Children’s Centre for every community by 2010.

These Centres are at the heart of the Government’s strategy to deliver better outcomes for children and families, building on successes of Sure Start local programmes, early excellence centres and neighbourhood nurseries and mainstreaming the lessons learned to extend the benefits to all families.

They are also a vital part of the Government’s 10 year childcare strategy to enable all families with children to have access to an affordable, flexible, high quality childcare place for their child

What Ofsted have said in early 2008...

The latest Ofsted report on the impact of services provided by Sure Start Children's Centres and extended schools issued in January 2008.

'Schools and Children's Centres served children and families very effectively, once they were there'

Overall the report showed that the children's centres inspected were providing a good or better service.

This is really good news for everyone currently working in Children's Centres delivering the services required and in establishing of high quality childcare provision within areas ofdisadvantage.

Setting up new provisions in communities in need is often a fraught process and relies on a vision dedicated to improving the lives of young children and their families.

This backed up with good leadership,management and team work can deliver stunning successes.

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