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Presentation name
The Sure Start Unit
Delivering better outcomes for children,
families and communities
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Presentation name
What we are here to do
To achieve better outcomes for children,
families and communities by:
•Increasing the availability of childcare for all
children
•Improving the health, education and emotional
development of young children
•Supporting parents as parents, and in their
aspirations towards employment
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Overarching themes
•Poverty is bad for children; we need to
ameliorate the effects of poverty and reduce the
numbers of children living in poverty
•Quality services that bring together education,
health and parenting support, esp in the early
years, deliver most gains for poorest children
•Services for all children need to be sensitised
to individual, family and community differences
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New Interdepartmental Unit
•Jointly accountable to DfES and DWP
•One lead Minister, Cathy Ashton, working
to 2 secretaries of state
•Cabinet subcommittee oversight, chaired
by Public Health Minister, Hazel Blears
•Maria Eagle, spokesperson in the
Commons
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What we are doing
All children
•free nursery education
•Reform of local
delivery infrastructure
•Reform of regulation
•After school care in
extended schools
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Poor children
•Children’s centres
•Nurseries
•Local SS programmes
•Childcare partnership
managers
Early intervention: what does it
mean?
•Age of child at time of service
•Level of severity of problem, if there is
one
•Prevention and a public health approach
•Ongoing tensions: all children, poor
children, children with ‘problems’
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Whom do we work with
Wants Yes
Needs Yes
Willing participants
Wants no
Needs no
Leave well enough
alone
Wants yes
Needs no
Benign neglect
Wants no
Needs yes
Assertive outreach
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Factors for success
Evidence based
practice
Doing the right thing
Provider attribute and
qualities
User satisfaction and
acceptance of support
Participation and
involvement
Greater sense of
control and self esteem
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what we have learned: key
principles
> Working with parents and children
> Services for everyone, but not the same
service
> Flexible at point of delivery: nuanced to
individual and community diversity
> Starting very early
> Community driven/professionally informed
> Outcome driven
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This stuff is hard
•Cannot do it without money, but money alone
does not do it
•Challenging provider driven cultures
•Reinventing wheels or adding bespoke
hubcaps?
•Early intervention: prevent problems in the
future, or make life better for children now?
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