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Sure Start Children's Centres

Sefton council proposed reducing the number of children's centres from 19 to seven, but I am pleased to say that, in the face of huge opposition from the hundreds of families who use the centres, it is reconsidering. My hon. Friend makes his point about the link between policy and the money made available. We could comment on manifesto pledges. I am sure he would agree that it is only by Government guaranteeing that the money is available and that it will be spent on children's centres that there is any hope of achieving the aims set out in the Select Committee report.