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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Lammy: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when he plans to authorise a further round of local sure start programmes. [148039] Yvette Cooper: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment and I have today invited applications to set up a sure start programme in each of the following 66 districts in England: Barking and Dagenham Basildon Bedford Bexley Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bradford Brighton and Hove Bristol Calderdale Carlisle Carrick Chester Coventry Dudley Ealing Easington Exeter Gateshead Greenwich Hackney Islington Kirklees Leeds Lewisham Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle under Lyme Newham North East Derbyshire North East Lincolnshire North Somerset North Tyneside Nottingham Oldham Plymouth Preston Redcar and Cleveland Redditch Rochdale Sandwell Sheffield South Tyneside Southampton Southwark St. Helens Staffordshire Moorlands Stockton-on-Tees Sunderland Swale Tameside Tamworth Tower Hamlets Trafford Wakefield Walsall Waltham Forest West Lindsey West Somerset Weymouth and Portland Wigan Wirral Wyre Wyre Forest. We will be placing a copy of the guidance for this fourth wave of sure start applications in the Library. These 66 applications are in addition to the 66 third wave programmes, currently submitting their plans, which should be up and running by the summer; and the 128 first and second wave programmes which are already delivering services to young children and their families in disadvantaged areas.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

148039; 362 c34-6W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Children Disadvantaged Applications Pre-school education Sure Start programme

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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