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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Sure Start scheme is too bureaucratic, say Tories

The Tory view of Sure Start and a report from edmonton Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Sure Start scheme is too bureaucratic, say Tories

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Letters

Letters to The Guardian in response to the leaked Sure Start evaluationGuardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Letters

The Guardian leader on the Sure Start evalution. While it makes the point that it is too soon to tell anything much it falls for the 'what works' slogan which assumes that something will work. But if economic and social inequality is the problem then Sure Start alone might never work EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Leader: Shaky times for Sure Start

Polly Toynbee questions the methods used in the Sure Start evalution but repeats the claim made by the Head Start evaluators that, 'every $1 spent on under-fives saved $7 by the time the children were 30'. Unfortunately this has almost the status of an urban myth and the methods of that evaluation require close scrutiny tooEducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Polly Toynbee: We must hold our nerve and support deprived children:

The first large scale evaluation of Sure Start reveals no overall improvement EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Doubts over value of ?3bn Sure Start