There's a plan?
- Michael Edwards
- Jun 15, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 2, 2020
Originally published @ 8:07 pm, Mon 15th Feb 2010
The latest Conservative poster cites a member of the public saying - "... but I like their plans for families".
As Captain Blackadder said in "Goes Forth" - There's a plan?
The voter is from Llandudno. The SureStart there provides -
ï Parenting courses/ parent and toddler groups
ï Baby massage
ï Storytimes
ï Cooking skills
ï Citizens Advice Bureau/ Relate/ Credit union
The Tory party says they'd rather SureStart was just for the families that need it most. (Contradicted by the aspiration for Sure Start health vistors to serve all parents.)
Instead all funding for early intervention and parenting support will be put into one budget, to be overseen by a newly created Early Years Support Team within the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
So co-ordination at the Whitehall level, instead at the local level.
Meanwhile, the Tory party have had to recover after claiming 54% of 15-17 year women in the top 10 deprived areas become pregnant. The Tories didn't twig, even when proofing their publications, that they were out by a factor of 10; not even when they claimed the figure was 19% for the least deprived areas.
Note, in the same 10 deprived areas, there had been a 10.5% decline in the under-18 conception rate since 1998, reversing a previous upward trend.
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For information of activities at South Derbyshire's Sure Start centres, surf -
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