We had one and it was called Surestart
What is an unsexy policy that if passed would immediately help millions of people?
November 11, 2026 at 9:50 AM
We had one and it was called Surestart
Lmfao the way you phrased that first part makes it sound like Mike Tapp has multiple dogs and only one is reserved for shagging 😭 anyway yeah we're two elections away from AI Vera Lynn singing "We'll Meet Again" to a SureStart centre as fodder for the blairites
November 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Lmfao the way you phrased that first part makes it sound like Mike Tapp has multiple dogs and only one is reserved for shagging 😭 anyway yeah we're two elections away from AI Vera Lynn singing "We'll Meet Again" to a SureStart centre as fodder for the blairites
Interesting, could the PDEL budget measure form part of a future context for enabling preventative current spending to be conceived as investment spending, see IFS case for #SureStart #Budget #PDEL #homelessness #children #youngpeople www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The measure slipped into UK budget that could protect spending on children, youth and rough sleeping | Heather Stewart
PDEL, which will ringfence money for preventive policies, marks a welcome and potentially consequential addition
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November 1, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Interesting, could the PDEL budget measure form part of a future context for enabling preventative current spending to be conceived as investment spending, see IFS case for #SureStart #Budget #PDEL #homelessness #children #youngpeople www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Yeah, Surestart deserves a nod. Effective and popular.
October 20, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Yeah, Surestart deserves a nod. Effective and popular.
The last Labour government funded education for 16-24 year olds and Adult Education. The created Surestart to give children a good start - the Tories stopped it #Newsnight
October 19, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The last Labour government funded education for 16-24 year olds and Adult Education. The created Surestart to give children a good start - the Tories stopped it #Newsnight
#r4today the one measure that was in place that was shown to work in the longer term was Surestart which was the very boring long term scheme with no short term electoral cycle return. How many of these long term schemes get binned for short term electoral gain.
October 20, 2026 at 6:50 AM
#r4today the one measure that was in place that was shown to work in the longer term was Surestart which was the very boring long term scheme with no short term electoral cycle return. How many of these long term schemes get binned for short term electoral gain.
Liverpool in the “top” 10 of most challenging places for a child to grow up. Long term solutions needed, not quick fixes. Bring back SureStart, invest in good food access that helps build brains & bodies via school meals & fresh produce availability (🚌 👀) & put resources back into youth services.
October 18, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Liverpool in the “top” 10 of most challenging places for a child to grow up. Long term solutions needed, not quick fixes. Bring back SureStart, invest in good food access that helps build brains & bodies via school meals & fresh produce availability (🚌 👀) & put resources back into youth services.
Surestart centres were great places aimed entirely at women, their health & wellbeing, antenatal & postnatal care, breastfeeding support, advice & support throughout the whole process including high-quality early years tuition until kids started school.
Of course the Conservatives had to kill them.
Of course the Conservatives had to kill them.
October 8, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Surestart centres were great places aimed entirely at women, their health & wellbeing, antenatal & postnatal care, breastfeeding support, advice & support throughout the whole process including high-quality early years tuition until kids started school.
Of course the Conservatives had to kill them.
Of course the Conservatives had to kill them.
Last labour govt rebuilt schools, invested in NHS bringing down max waiting times to 18wks, created Surestart.
This being repeated by the current govt in response to 14th of Troy neglect!!
The true establishment are terrified by the idea that they must share their wealth and opportunities!!!
This being repeated by the current govt in response to 14th of Troy neglect!!
The true establishment are terrified by the idea that they must share their wealth and opportunities!!!
Years of austerity, privatisation of essential public services, Brexit, Covid; all mismanaged by 5 appalling Tory PMs in 14 years. Why is any sane person still willing to give any greedy Tory liar & their rich donors, another chance to enrich themselves?
Zero equality or fairness, just like in USA.
Zero equality or fairness, just like in USA.
October 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Last labour govt rebuilt schools, invested in NHS bringing down max waiting times to 18wks, created Surestart.
This being repeated by the current govt in response to 14th of Troy neglect!!
The true establishment are terrified by the idea that they must share their wealth and opportunities!!!
This being repeated by the current govt in response to 14th of Troy neglect!!
The true establishment are terrified by the idea that they must share their wealth and opportunities!!!
Historically the interventions that have had most benefit for socio-economically disadvantaged children have not been targeted/means tested interventions (eg SureStart-missed so many) but universal ones:
•Universal education
•Health visiting
•childhood immunisation
•Universal child benefit
•The NHS
•Universal education
•Health visiting
•childhood immunisation
•Universal child benefit
•The NHS
October 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Historically the interventions that have had most benefit for socio-economically disadvantaged children have not been targeted/means tested interventions (eg SureStart-missed so many) but universal ones:
•Universal education
•Health visiting
•childhood immunisation
•Universal child benefit
•The NHS
•Universal education
•Health visiting
•childhood immunisation
•Universal child benefit
•The NHS
Like there are myriad reasons why children are being let down on plague island but I think just blanket blaming parents without considering the death of things like surestart and other baby and new-mum support and education groups is bad
October 5, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Like there are myriad reasons why children are being let down on plague island but I think just blanket blaming parents without considering the death of things like surestart and other baby and new-mum support and education groups is bad
No. And anyway why? Why do this sh!t? Is Osborne not happy after trashing the country (resulting in broken social fabric eg Surestart), now reducing visitor experience to a cash maximisation project?
More enriching to see this important artefact in the hallowed hall at Bayeux. Perfidious Albion.
More enriching to see this important artefact in the hallowed hall at Bayeux. Perfidious Albion.
October 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
No. And anyway why? Why do this sh!t? Is Osborne not happy after trashing the country (resulting in broken social fabric eg Surestart), now reducing visitor experience to a cash maximisation project?
More enriching to see this important artefact in the hallowed hall at Bayeux. Perfidious Albion.
More enriching to see this important artefact in the hallowed hall at Bayeux. Perfidious Albion.
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The government has announced plans to expand health visiting and midwifery support in family hubs across all local authorities by 2028.
#HealthVisitors #SureStart #HealthVisiting
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#HealthVisitors #SureStart #HealthVisiting
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Expanded health visiting support to be rolled out across 1,000 family hubs
The government has announced plans to expand health visiting and midwifery support in family hubs across all local authorities by 2028.
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October 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The government has announced plans to expand health visiting and midwifery support in family hubs across all local authorities by 2028.
#HealthVisitors #SureStart #HealthVisiting
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#HealthVisitors #SureStart #HealthVisiting
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No Sure Start without health visitors, leaders warn
Plans to boost early years support will fail without investment in more health visitors, nursing leaders have warned in response to pledges by the government. #nurses #healthvisiting #healthvisitors #surestart
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Plans to boost early years support will fail without investment in more health visitors, nursing leaders have warned in response to pledges by the government. #nurses #healthvisiting #healthvisitors #surestart
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No Sure Start without health visitors, leaders warn
Read the response by nursing leaders to plans by Yvette Cooper to effectively reintroduce the Sure Start early years programme.
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October 1, 2026 at 3:18 PM
No Sure Start without health visitors, leaders warn
Plans to boost early years support will fail without investment in more health visitors, nursing leaders have warned in response to pledges by the government. #nurses #healthvisiting #healthvisitors #surestart
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Plans to boost early years support will fail without investment in more health visitors, nursing leaders have warned in response to pledges by the government. #nurses #healthvisiting #healthvisitors #surestart
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not really, he had no help from the civil service during those 5 years
its a little sad that you think the employment bill, tenants rights, breakfast clubs, surestart, and reducing waiting lists are a disappoint whereas reducing energy bills by £1 a week for 6 months is such a success
its a little sad that you think the employment bill, tenants rights, breakfast clubs, surestart, and reducing waiting lists are a disappoint whereas reducing energy bills by £1 a week for 6 months is such a success
September 30, 2026 at 9:59 PM
not really, he had no help from the civil service during those 5 years
its a little sad that you think the employment bill, tenants rights, breakfast clubs, surestart, and reducing waiting lists are a disappoint whereas reducing energy bills by £1 a week for 6 months is such a success
its a little sad that you think the employment bill, tenants rights, breakfast clubs, surestart, and reducing waiting lists are a disappoint whereas reducing energy bills by £1 a week for 6 months is such a success
So govt is announcing that it is to recruit youth workers and a re-opening of youth clubs. Who knew this was a good thing eh? You couldn’t make this shit up. How Lab and others allowed the Tories to close youth clubs as well as SureStart will remain a mystery.
September 30, 2026 at 11:10 AM
So govt is announcing that it is to recruit youth workers and a re-opening of youth clubs. Who knew this was a good thing eh? You couldn’t make this shit up. How Lab and others allowed the Tories to close youth clubs as well as SureStart will remain a mystery.
Just returned from a rousing Labour Party Conference, with some great policy announcements on Social care, SureStart, Maternity care, domestic violence, Europe, electoral reform and youth provision. They’re ambitious, relevant and timely. Belief and hope are front and centre.
September 30, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Just returned from a rousing Labour Party Conference, with some great policy announcements on Social care, SureStart, Maternity care, domestic violence, Europe, electoral reform and youth provision. They’re ambitious, relevant and timely. Belief and hope are front and centre.
They didn’t argue against it and only since yesterday (over 2 years after being elected) have they signalled a move to recruit youth workers. So they allowed the Tory argument over cuts to gain traction without challenge. As someone who worked with YP I know the value of SureStart and youth clubs.
September 30, 2026 at 11:33 AM
They didn’t argue against it and only since yesterday (over 2 years after being elected) have they signalled a move to recruit youth workers. So they allowed the Tory argument over cuts to gain traction without challenge. As someone who worked with YP I know the value of SureStart and youth clubs.
Would that be SureStart which Labour revived?
September 27, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Would that be SureStart which Labour revived?
Such a crime, South Tyneside was a leader in the provision of integrated care in the years before SureStart. Clearly the Reform vandals are too dumb to understand that the £1.1 million they are spending now would save the Council over £7 million in 15?years time.
September 24, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Such a crime, South Tyneside was a leader in the provision of integrated care in the years before SureStart. Clearly the Reform vandals are too dumb to understand that the £1.1 million they are spending now would save the Council over £7 million in 15?years time.
Great talk from Andrew Pollard at UKHSA annual conference. Vaccines as social justice. Don't know if it will be available externally, but seriously good.
Effect of SureStart on child health amazing.
Effect of SureStart on child health amazing.
September 22, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Great talk from Andrew Pollard at UKHSA annual conference. Vaccines as social justice. Don't know if it will be available externally, but seriously good.
Effect of SureStart on child health amazing.
Effect of SureStart on child health amazing.
My eldest was born just as Cameron got in, they closed the SureStart centres and the Junior ISAs. All of the progress, halted. I was naive and thought it was a strange little blip.
September 20, 2026 at 8:44 AM
My eldest was born just as Cameron got in, they closed the SureStart centres and the Junior ISAs. All of the progress, halted. I was naive and thought it was a strange little blip.
Or we could bring back SureStart, which was proven to work and save money; along with youth clubs and other opportunities for older kids to meet and socialise without needing to be wealthy.
But easier to blame the parents I guess 🤨
But easier to blame the parents I guess 🤨
Parents in England and Wales could be fined or jailed for child’s crimes, minister says
Parents in England and Wales could be fined or jailed for child’s crimes, minister says
Jake Richards says changes would be part of ‘carrot-and-stick’ approach to try to turn around young offenders
Parents whose children commit crimes could lose their benefits, face fines and even be jailed, a minister has said.
Jake Richards said the youth justice system “should hold parents to account in a proportionate way for ensuring that they play their role in keeping communities safe”. Continue reading...
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September 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Or we could bring back SureStart, which was proven to work and save money; along with youth clubs and other opportunities for older kids to meet and socialise without needing to be wealthy.
But easier to blame the parents I guess 🤨
But easier to blame the parents I guess 🤨