§ Joan RyanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to authorise a further round of local sure start programmes. [3705]
§ Yvette CooperMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Skills and I have today invited the following 105 districts in England d to set up 177 new sure start programmes:
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District Number of programmes Amber Valley 1 Arun 1 Ashford 1 Barking and Dagenham 1 Barnsley 2 Barrow-in-Furness 1 Birmingham 6 Blackburn with Darwen 2 Blackpool 1 Bolton 2 Bradford 3 Brent 1 Bristol 1 Burnley 1 Calderdale 1 Cambridge 1 Camden 2 Cheltenham 1 Colchester 1 Coventry 1 Crawley 1 Crewe and Nantwich 1 Darlington 1 Dartford 1 Derby 2 Doncaster 3 Durham 1 Easington 1 Eastbourne 1 Erewash 1 Gateshead 2 Gedling 1 Gosport 1 611W
District Number of programmes Gravesham 1 Great Yarmouth 1 Greenwich 2 Hackney 3 Halton 2 Hammersmith and Fulham 1 Haringey 3 Hartlepool 1 Hastings 1 Hyndburn 1 Islington 3 Kensington and Chelsea 1 Kettering 1 Kingston upon Hull 3 Kirklees 2 Knowsley 2 Lambeth 3 Leeds 2 Leicester 3 Lewisham 2 Lincoln 1 Liverpool 4 Manchester 4 Mansfield 1 Merton 1 Middlesbrough 2 Newcastle upon Tyne 3 Newham 4 North Cornwall 1 North East Lincolnshire 2 North Tyneside Norwich 1 Nottingham 3 Oldham 2 Pendle 1 Penwith 1 Peterborough 1 Plymouth 2 Preston 2 Redcar and Cleveland 2 Rochdale 2 Rother 1 Rotherham 1 Salford 2 Sandwell 3 Sefton 2 Sheffield 3 South Tyneside 2 Southampton 1 Southwark 3 St. Helens 2 Stockton-on-Tees 2 Stoke-on-Trent 3 Sunderland 3 Tameside 1 Taunton Deane 1 Teignbridge 1 Thanet 1 Torbay 1 Torridge 1 Tower Hamlets 3 Wakefield 1 Walsall 2 Waltham Forest 1 Wansbeck 1 Wear Valley 1 Wellingborough 1 Westminster 1 Wirral 1 Wolverhampton 2 Worcester 1 York 1 We have placed a copy of the guidance for this fifth wave of programmes in the Library.
These new programmes are an addition to the 260 programmes which are already delivering services to young children and their families in disadvantaged areas or developing their plans for delivery from the autumn. This announcement brings the total number of sure start programmes so far announced to 437. They will become operational from summer 2002 when we will be well on schedule to meet the Public Service Agreement target of 500 programmes operating by 2004, reaching one third of all poor children aged under four and their families in England. This will be a significant contribution to the Government's aim of eradicating child poverty by 2020.