Inquiry into Sure Start children’s centres begins
2 November 2009 (updated on 22 April 2010)
The first oral evidence session of the Children, Schools and Families Committee's inquiry into Sure Start children's centres will take place today. Watch live from 3.45pm.
- Video and audio: Sure Start children's centres evidence session
- Children, Schools and Families Committee
The witnesses are:
- Professor Edward Melhuish, Executive Director, National Evaluation of Sure Start
- Dr Margy Whalley, Director of the Pen Green Centre Research, Development and Training Base
- Professor Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Professor of Early Childhood Education, Institute of Education
The Committee will look at the development of the children's centres programme from Sure Start and other initiatives, the research base, the implications of evaluation evidence for the future of children's centres, and at how the policy is being delivered.
It will also examine whether the children's centres model of integrated services for under-5s and their families promotes early childhood development and is an effective response to deprivation.