Dame Andrea Leadsom, the Government's early years healthy development advisor, has today revealed the 14 trailblazer local authorities that will receive extra funding to 'lead the way to improve services for families' and help the 'wider rollout of the Family Hubs programme, which is already underway in some areas.
To promote the news, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty visited St Austell Family Hub in Cornwall (pictured) where they where they met parents, babies and toddlers.
It forms part of the Prime Minister's ambition to 'put families at the centre of communities', and comes after the Government announced last April the 75 local authorities that are taking part in the Start for Life and Family Hub programme. The programme is backed by £300m worth of Government funding up to 2025.
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