Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 72719

Sure Start Programme

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 10 September 2025

Question

Tom Hayes

LabourBournemouth East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what lessons her Department has learned from the preceding roll out of (a) Sure Start Sure Start Local Programmes and (b) Sure Start Children’s Centres.

Answer

Josh MacAlister
​​Ensuring every child has the best start in life, the chance to achieve and to thrive, are the foundation stones of the government’s Opportunity Mission.​Research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies has shown that access to Sure Start local programmes and...

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