David Cameron has today announced Conservative plans for a new generation of Sure Start Centres to focus on the neediest families and involve organisations with a track record of helping parents.
The new model of Sure Start Centre will deliver dedicated support to disadvantaged and dysfunctional families as part of the Sure Start programme.
They will be [...]
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David Cameron – A new generation of Sure Start Centres
Grant Shapps highlights IVF postcode lottery
Grant Shapps has called on the Government to end the postcode lottery around the provision of IVF treatment.
A new report from the Conservatives reveals that more than eight out of ten Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are not offering the full three cycles of IVF treatment as recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical [...]
UK Government 750,000 school meals short of reaching its 2009 target
School meals service in meltdown – David Laws -10 July 2008
The Government has missed its target to increase school meal take-up by March 2008 and is nearly 750,000 meals short of reaching its 2009 target, figures published today have revealed.
Research by the Liberal Democrats has found that only one in four schools has [...]
Scottish Executive Healthy Respect sex education project “failure” – Mary Scanlon MSP
Emergency contraception for school children shocker
Almost 50 schoolgirls under the age of 16 have been given the morning after pill by a Scottish Executive programme set up to cut the number of teenage pregnancies. The Mail on Sunday has learned that the Healthy Respect sex education project has given out free emergency contraception pills to [...]
