Jo Cox Parliamentery Question Sure Start

Jo Cox ;  Labour, Batley and Spen

Cuts to council funding—the abolition of a series of grants and credits by the coalition—mean that Sure Start centres in my constituency are providing more basic services than ever before. I am hearing now of children in Kirklees coming to centres on a Monday morning having not had a hot meal since the previous Friday, yet Sure Start budgets in the north of England have been cut by 39%. Does the Minister share my assessment, and that of the London School of Economics and the Centre for Analysis for Social Exclusion, that even the most dedicated of Sure Start children’s centres will not be able to withstand further cuts?

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http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2015-06-15a.14.8&s=speaker%3A25394#g15.5