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Foundation years - Sure Start Children's Centres

Inquiry status: Written submissions received and oral evidence is ongoing

The Education Committee is conducting an inquiry into Sure Start Children's Centres examining the Core Purpose of Sure Start children's centres, their effectiveness and the range of services and activities provided. The Committee will compare with similar initiatives in other countries and look at how to define and measure good practice in family and parenting support outreach. How to increase the involvement of families (especially fathers, disadvantaged families, minority ethnic groups and families of children with SEN and disabled children) in the running of children’s centres and in their regular activities and how the overall level and quality of provision is being affected by moves to local funding.

 

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Date Business
06 March 2013
2:00 pm
 Subject: Foundation years: Sure start
Witness(es): Angela Prodger, Deputy Head of Centre, Pen Green Centre for Children and Families, Cllr Bob Scott, Chair of Governors Pen Green Centre for Children and Families, Christine Wheelan, Head of Centre, Croyland Children's Centre & Nursery School and Ellen Wallace, Principle of the Woodnewton Academy Trust; Alex Hopkins, Director of Children, Customers and Education, Northamptonshire County Council, Diane Dinch, Locality Clinical Team Facilitator, Corby and Kettering Health Visiting Teams, Willowbrook Health Centre, Maggie McKay, Senior Coordinator, Home-Start Corby, Pen Green Centre and Nicki Price, Chief Officer, Corby Commissioning Group, Willowbrook Health Centre
Location: Pen Green Research Base, Corby

Education Committee - publications

Title Date published
Foundation Years: Sure Start Children's Centres | PDF version Foundation Years: Sure Start Children's Centres (PDF) 08 February 2013
Foundation Years - Sure Start Children's Centres - written evidence 21 December 2012