Sure Start's premature obituary
by John Craig
Last week, Norman glass, the father of Sure Start, claimed in the Guardian that the flagship programme had been killed off. The government, for the their part, argued that it had simply been 'rolled-out' to the whole country. Both are an exaggeration ' while Children's Centres mark a new phase for Sure Start, the broader debate about its principles goes on. As Norman Glass himself observed in an earlier article, one key principle is that of local public involvement and initiative. On Friday, I wrote a comment piece on its importance for the Guardian website, building on some of the ideas I developed in Schools Out.