The Best Start initiative draws from the success of Sure Start, launched in 1999.
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Targeting benefits at the most vulnerable sounds like good sense – but a wider support system could be more effective at tackling poverty.
I worked with Sure Start and saw the good it brought to communities.
Sure Start saved the NHS millions of pounds.
Sure Start centres are shutting or becoming ‘hubs’, but will they still provide the services which local families value and need?
We can’t keep blaming the MMR-autism scare – there are other forces at play.
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Strategic Lead for Early Years and Director of the Early Years Community Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of Public Policy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Public Policy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor in Economics, UCL
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Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Kent; Independent Social Research Foundation