House of Commons - Foundation Years: Sure Start children's centres - Education Committee

Education Committee - Fifth Report
Foundation Years: Sure Start children's centres

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 11 December 2013.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Background and numbers

Impact and effectiveness

2 Definition and purpose of Sure Start children's centres

What is a Sure Start centre?

The core purpose

Universal or targeted services

Priority services: children or parents?

Childcare and early education

Working with partners

Working with childminders and other education providers

3 Outcomes and accountability

Measuring outcomes

Evidence-based interventions

Payment by Results

Decision-making and governance

Research into effectiveness

4 Reaching children and families in need

Disadvantaged groups

Involving parents in children's centres

Child protection and children in need

Registration of births

Use of data by centres

5 Local and central Government: funding, commissioning and strategic planning

Reconfiguration and closure of centres

Local authority accountability

Government policy

Two year old offer

Central Government policy on early years

6 Workforce and leadership

Training and development

Annex: Programme for the Committee's visit to the Netherlands and Denmark, 3-7 February 2013

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

22 January 2013

4 September 2013

15 October 2013

Written Evidence

Additional Written Evidence

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Prepared 17 December 2013