Sure Start Millmead in Kent will soon become a mutual society and the lawyer who devised the model expects more will follow. Cliff Mills, a partner at Cobbetts law firm, which specialises in co-operative and mutual services, said: "I have spoken to three or four other Sure Starts who are interested. Now one's gone, with another on the way, more will want to follow."
Mills said that becoming a co-operative would offer Sure Start local programmes greater protection and independence.
This view was backed by Sure Start Folkestone, which became a mutual society in September with a 25,000 grant from Co-operative Action (Children Now, 21-27 September 2004).
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