According to a report published by the Children's, Schools and Families select committee today, information that would help assess the value for money of children's centres is "difficult to come by" although it concedes that work in this area is progressing.
The committee has been investigating the aims, successes and limitations of the Sure Start scheme so far. It also concluded that the total amount of money being spent on Sure Start centres is a "grey area".
It states: "In order to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and value for money of children's centres nationally, the government must make more effort to work out the totality of funding that is supporting centres, including resources from the Departments of Health and for Work and Pensions. It is unacceptable that such basic information remains apparently unknown."
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