It is this approach that many involved in children's services have warned could be lost as the local programmes are transferred into the children's centre roll-out. And the row over the forthcoming national evaluation of Sure Start, due to show few or no improvements on a range of targets as a result of the initiative, makes this even more likely (see News, page 4, and To the Point, page 9).
The obsession with measuring results - too soon and sometimes of the wrong things - provides ammunition for standardising services within children's centres and focusing on outcomes that can be measured more easily.
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