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Speaking at the first ever National Conference for Children’s Centre leaders Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls welcomed the news that there are now almost 2,500 centres working with over 2m children. However, he acknowledged that there was more to do and pledged a package of measures to take the Sure Start work out into communities where it is needed most. 

The package includes:

• An additional two outreach workers at each centre in the 1500 most disadvantaged areas, as part of the overall funding for children’s centres announced in August 2007
• A review of practice on outreach work to clarify what makes good outreach work, with further training and development material and activities later this year
• £7m funding over the next 3 years to allow 5,000 practitioners to take up new training opportunities
• New guidance to help centres work with black and minority ethnic families
  

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