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Articles on Sure Start

May 16, 2024

Gordon Brown wants £3 billion for the ‘austerity generation’. But the UK needs a more enduring solution

Elliott Johnson, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Daniel Nettle, Northumbria University, Newcastle, and Matthew T. Johnson, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Targeting benefits at the most vulnerable sounds like good sense – but a wider support system could be more effective at tackling poverty.

April 18, 2024

Sally Pearse, Sheffield Hallam University

I worked with Sure Start and saw the good it brought to communities.

June 4, 2019

Sure Start saved the NHS millions of pounds.

April 16, 2018

Eleanor Jupp, University of Kent

Sure Start centres are shutting or becoming ‘hubs’, but will they still provide the services which local families value and need?

September 12, 2016

Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University

We can’t keep blaming the MMR-autism scare – there are other forces at play.

Robert Dingwall
Professor, Nottingham Trent University
Elliott Johnson
Senior Research Fellow in Public Policy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Sally Pearse
Strategic Lead for Early Years and Director of the Early Years Community Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
Matthew T. Johnson
Professor of Public Policy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Eleanor Jupp
Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Kent
Daniel Nettle
Professor of Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Gabriella Conti
Associate Professor in Economics, UCL