§ Mr. LammyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when he plans to authorise a further round of local sure start programmes. [148039]
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§ Yvette CooperMy 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 66 districts in England:
- Barking and Dagenham
- Basildon
- Bedford
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Blackpool
- Bolton
- Bradford
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol
- Calderdale
- Carlisle
- Carrick
- Chester
- Coventry
- Dudley
- Ealing
- Easington
- Exeter
- Gateshead
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Islington
- Kirklees
- Leeds
- Lewisham
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newcastle under Lyme
- Newham
- North East Derbyshire
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Somerset
- North Tyneside
- Nottingham
- Oldham
- Plymouth
- Preston
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Redditch
- Rochdale
- Sandwell
- Sheffield
- South Tyneside
- Southampton
- Southwark
- St. Helens
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Sunderland
- Swale
- Tameside
- Tamworth
- Tower Hamlets
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- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Waltham Forest
- West Lindsey
- West Somerset
- Weymouth and Portland
- Wigan
- Wirral
- Wyre
- Wyre Forest.
We will be placing a copy of the guidance for this fourth wave of sure start applications in the Library.
These 66 applications are in addition to the 66 third wave programmes, currently submitting their plans, which should be up and running by the summer; and the 128 first and second wave programmes which are already delivering services to young children and their families in disadvantaged areas.