Evaluating Sure Start

Authors

Edward Melhuish, University of WollongongFollow
Jay Belsky, University of London
Alastair Leyland, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Angela Anning, University of London
Zarrina Kurtz, University of London
Jane Tunstill, University of London
Mog Ball, University of London
Pamela Meadows, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Jacqueline Barnes, University of London
Martin Frost, University of London
Beverley Botting, Office for National Statistics

RIS ID

94114

Publication Details

NESS Research Team (2006). Evaluating Sure Start. Poverty, 123 3-4.

Abstract

Sure Start local programmes are a cornerstone in the Government's effort to break the inter-generational cycle of disadvantage. Their principal goal is to enhance the functioning of children under four years and their families by improving services provided in over five hundred small communities that are among the 20 per cent most deprived in England.