March 27, 2008
Sure Start has pioneered an integrated approach to children’s services, bringing services together around the needs of children and families. As such, the programme foreshadowed many of the objectives of the wider Every Child Matters (ECM) reform of children’s services and from 2003/4 Sure Start has been central to the delivery of the five ECM outcomes. Together with extended schools and working within the wider strategic framework provided by children’s trusts at local authority level, SSCCs offer a new universal service for all children and families while keeping a clear focus on the needs of the most disadvantaged.
Posted by Gary Holden at March 27, 2008 7:04 PM