Children's Centres

The Commission for Rural Communities makes a bid for the value of children's centres in rural areas to be acknowledged. The government has made it clear in the 2010 Spending Review and elsewhere that it wishes the Sure Start programme and Children's Centres to be "refocused on its original purpose of improving the life chances of disadvantaged children." In the light of this, it's not clear how influential this commissioning guide will be with cash-strapped local authorities or other likely commissioners.