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Social workers urged to forge closer links with Sure Start
Children’s social workers need to work closer with Sure Start children's centres for parenting support to have a significant impact on child protection, according to a sector expert.
16 November 2011
Ennals to stand down as NCB chief executive
Sir Paul Ennals (pictured), chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, will quit his role in autumn it was announced today. ...
28 March 2011
Hundreds of Sure Start children's centres set to close
As many as 250 Sure Start children's centres are at risk of closing within a year, while thousands are cutting back services and issuing redundancy risk notices, it has been revealed.
28 January 2011
Council plans to lift child protection referral burden
Child protection workers in Hammersmith and Fulham will no longer assess referrals but instead focus on complex cases in a proposed reorganisation of the council's children's services.
07 January 2011
DfE spends £12.8m on management consultants
The Department for Education spent £4.6m on work by a management consultancy firm that had been charged with delivering Contactpoint, departmental records have shown.
25 November 2010
Directors tell MPs Sure Start should not be ring-fenced
Councils want the freedom to spend Sure Start money on other early intervention funding, directors told the education select committee this morning.
23 November 2010
A fresh start for Sure Start
The previous government's flagship programme, Sure Start, is being refocused on hard-to-reach families. Louise Hunt looks at what this may mean for children's social workers
06 September 2010
Research realities: Assessing early intervention programmes
Research analyst Susannah Bowyer examines difficulties in assessing the effectiveness of early intervention schemes
23 July 2010
New grant from 2011 for early intervention work with children
The government has announced a new Children and Young People's grant to help councils continue early intervention and prevention work. The ring-fenced...
29 March 2010
Parky; Bridgend suicides; Cold deaths probe
Headlines in today's papers include:- Michael Parkinson says care of elderly downright unacceptable; Pensioners found dead in their own home at peak of UK's Big Freeze spark inquiry; Bridgend: Double hanging in town rocked by young suicides
12 January 2010
News round up: Parky; Bridgend suicides; Cold deaths probe
Headlines in today's papers include:- Michael Parkinson says care of elderly downright unacceptable; Pensioners found dead in their own home at peak of UK's Big Freeze spark inquiry; Bridgend: Double hanging in town rocked by young suicides
12 January 2010
Sure Start Maternity Payment
Who is it for? Expectant or new mothers in families getting IS , income related ESA , income-based JSA , WTC (where it includes disability element) or CTC if paid at more than family element.
Who pays it? Job Centre Plus (regionalised office), out of 'Regulated Social Fund'.
Which leaflet? And how is it claimed? NI17A + SB16. On Social Fund form SF100 on request from Job Centre Plus office or by phone to region
05 January 2010
Children's Centres
These did not so much come into being in March 2003 as result from the government’s decision to rebrand early excellence centres and Sure Start (qv) projects which offer childcare and neighbourhood nurseries. They were later devolved to local authorities, although local authorities can only provide them themselves (as opposed to contracting their provision) as “a last resort”. Together for Children, a consortium, has been established to offer advice, support and expertise to local authorities in setting them up.
The programme is an important part of the government’s strategy to raise standards and integrate services for young people and families in England. It aims to develop, demonstrate and disseminate models of excellence in delivering centre-based, integrated, multi-agency services, which meet the needs of children and families, raise standards and have a national impact. Children’s centres are intended to meet the needs of families in the 20 per cent most disadvantages wards
21 July 2009
DCSF: High rates of satisfaction with Sure Start centres
Two-thirds of users are very satisfied by services provided by Sure Start children's centres, research for the Department for Children, Schools and Families said today.
19 February 2009
Sure Start success in helping children of poor families hailed
Other headlines in today's papers include:- Over 4,000 under-fives suspended from school; Britain now official drugs capital of Europe
07 November 2008
News round up: Sure Start success in helping poor children hailed
Other headlines in today's papers include:- Over 4,000 under-fives suspended from school; Britain now official drugs capital of Europe
07 November 2008
DCSF wants Sure Start centres placed on statutory footing
The government has launched a public consultation on plans to put Sure Start Children's Centres on a statutory footing as part of the forthcoming Education and Skills Bill.
16 September 2008
Residential care: children's safeguarding under scrutiny
One in 10 children’s homes in England are failing to keep young people in their care safe, according to a report published today.
08 July 2008
Elderly to get equal rights under government plans
Other headlines in today's papers include: Kid crime rise 'an injustice'; £200 scheme for problem families
23 June 2008
News round up: Elderly to get equal rights under government plans
Other headlines in today's papers include: Kid crime rise 'an injustice'; £200 scheme for problem families
23 June 2008
