Sure Start, like the National Health Service, is a Labour Government creation.
Its aim is ‘giving children the best possible start in life’. This is achieved by improving child care and early education with health and family support with emphasis on outreach and community development. Originally intended to support families from pregnancy until children were four years old it was extended to cover an undefined responsibility up to age fourteen, or sixteen for those with disabilities.
http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/
Let’s hope that the Liberals in the new Lib-Con government will be an influence for moderation and that Sure Start will be shielded from the massive public services cuts anticipated under David Cameron’s Tory leadership. Time will tell.
Compassionate Conservatism? Their history tells a very different story. Remember the dark days of the Thatcher and Major governments?
Local Tories seem to be spitting feathers because Sure Start is Labour’s and it’s so popular. They bend over backwards in their propaganda to say they like it after all. But do they?
“A truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.”
Yes, it's true! The old Egremont 'Sure Start' building closed - but only because Sure Start transferred here. But the Tory propaganda only said it had 'closed'. Didn't they want you to know it had only closed to re-open in more modern surroundings? Tut, tut!
Given their propaganda distortions about the Egremont Sure Start centre (on the right) being closed, without mentioning it was to re-locate to the modern building on the left, would you have faith in them not to ‘propagandize’ about every other aspect of Sure Start as well?
The Sure Start Centre did not 'close' - it transferred from here to more modern premises. But did the Tories want you to believe that the whole thing had closed?
It seems the Wallasey electorate saw right through the Wallasey Tories’ propaganda last Thursday. We must now wait and see whether the Cameron government is at all different from its Wallasey propagandists.
