The report, produced in conjunction with The TaxPayers' Alliance, also calls on the government to abandon plans to extend the school leaving age to 18, scrap the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) and reduce non-frontline staff in health and schools by 10 per cent. The proposals are part of wider suggestions on how the country could save £50bn a year.
Abolishing Sure Start would save £1,456m from 2010-11 onwards, according to the report, which says that, while the programme's "intent is admirable", Sure Start is "failing to deliver on its promises".
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