Helen Dent CBE, Family Action’s chief executive, will give a wide-ranging speech picking up some of the major themes around the current debate on Sure Start.
She will call on the government to harness the power of early intervention and home-based family support as one of the building blocks to tackle family disadvantage and provide a stimulus for the big society.
"Sure Start centres can provide a starting point for the big society. At a time when the political parties have approximately half a million members between them, and when the Church of England has 1.14 million regular weekly church-goers, Sure Start is engaging more than half a million children and has capacity for up to 2.7 million children and their families to access children’s centres every week," said Dent.
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