Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 2
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Set out plans to expand Family Hubs with sustained funding and issue guidance for 0-2 services.
Recommendation
We call on the Government to set out plans to further expand the network of Family Hubs to provide access to a Hub every community. This plan must be supported by sustained and ringfenced funding. Previous research on the benefits of the Sure Start Programme clearly set out the long-term benefits and financial returns of such an investment and would directly support this Government’s ambition to give every child the best start in life. We also ask the Government to set out when it will confirm the funding arrangements for new areas and when it plans to issue guidance to those areas on services for children between the ages of 0 and 2. (Recommendation, Paragraph 19)