§ Maria EagleTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when he plans to authorise a further round of local Sure Start programmes. [130726]
§ Yvette CooperI have been asked to reply.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment and I have today invited applications to set up a Sure Start programme in each of the following 65 districts in England:
Proposed List of Districts for Sure Start Round 3
- Allerdale
- Barnsley
- Bassetlaw
- Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Birmingham
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Bradford
- Brent
- Bromley
- Bury
- Camden
- Chester-le-Street
- Chesterfield
- Darlington
- Derby
- Doncaster
- East Lindsey
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Staffordshire
- Ellesmere Port and Neston
- Hackney
- Halton
- Haringey
- Hartlepool
- Havant
- Havering
- Herefordshire
- Hillingdon
- Kings Lynn and West Norfolk
- Kingston Upon Hull
- Knowsley
- Lambeth
- Lancaster
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Middlesbrough
- Milton Keynes
- Newark and Sherwood
- Newham
- North Devon
- North Lincolnshire
- Northampton
- Oswestry
- Restormel
- Rossendale
653W - Rotherham
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Scarborough
- Sefton
- Sheffield
- Shepway
- Southend-on-Sea
- Southwark
- Stockport
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Swindon
- Tendring
- Tower Hamlets
- Warrington
- Waveney
- West Lancashire
- Wolverhampton.
We have placed a copy of the guidance for this application round in the Library.
These 65 applications are in addition to 59 trailblazer areas, which are now delivering services to children and families, and a further 70 second wave areas, which have now submitted their plans and are on course to start delivering services from the autumn.