Ministers put extra effort into Sure Start - The Guardian 5th March 2008

The government is to revamp its multibillion-pound Sure Start programme which supports parents in deprived communities after research revealed the services are making only "modest" improvements to children's lives. Sure Start centres in the 1,500 most deprived communities will have two new outreach workers to take services into children's homes, and all 2,500 centres are being ordered to do more to address the needs of ethnic-minority families after research suggested that some have failed to reach the neediest families, the children's secretary, Ed Balls, said yesterday.

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