Latest analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reveals the benefits of Sure Start children’s centres to children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Researchers concluded that children’s centres – a central plank of New Labour’s childcare policy – were found to have increased the amount of SEND support available for pre-school age children which had led to a 9% decline in the need for education, health and care plans – or SEN statements pre-2014 – by the time someone reached 16.
The IFS also found that having access to a centre significantly reduced the number of children recorded as having SEND in secondary school (11-16).
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