The latest evaluation of the programme is expected to show children inSure Start areas have not fared better than those in equivalent areaswithout Sure Start programmes. And it reportedly reveals that teenagemothers have actually done worse.
These unpublished results, together with other early findings, haveprompted some early years experts to say Sure Start has "failed".
"Children who have been through Sure Start have been followed up forseveral years and it doesn't seem to have made a blind bit of differenceto them. They didn't do any better at school and their health recordsare not better," Professor Helen Penn told a conference in Newham, eastLondon last week.
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