Sure Start's current targets run until the end of March 2004 and Children Now has learned that Sure Start and the Department of Health are looking at making the new targets focus around reducing health inequalities. Officials from the two departments are due to meet to discuss the proposal later this month.
Linda Kennedy, children's health and wellbeing team leader at the Sure Start Unit, admitted that Sure Start local programmes were having problems engaging with their PCTs, and said that Sure Start was working with the department to make sure the new targets were the same.
Sure Start project managers have welcomed the idea of joint targets.
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