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4Children Articles

Never again

There were at least 1,400 victims of appalling sexual exploitation between 1997 and 2013 in and around my constituency of Rotherham. Each and every one of them was a child we failed to protect, with some as young as 11 raped, abducted, trafficked, beaten and...

Why Labour must never abandon Sure Start

Any party that does not put Sure Start children’s centres at the heart of its election manifesto for families will make a mistake. When Sure Start began in 1999, it set out with a vision of creating a new service architecture in every disadvantaged area, something...

A window of opportunity on childcare

In the last few months it has become clear that childcare is going up the political and policy agenda.  Both the coalition government and the Labour party have launched commissions to gather evidence and consider the options for their future offer and several...

250 children centres face closure

The true scale of the potential closures and cuts to sure start children centres has been laid bare today for the first time, with approximately 250 at risk of closing within a year; a further 2,000 cutting back the services they offer to families and 1,000 centres issuing ‘at risk of redundancy notices’ to staff. These are the findings of a new survey of sure start children’s centre managers across England, carried out by ourselves, 4Children, and Daycare Trust, which was published today.

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