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Cameron plans to bring 'spirit of enterprise' to Sure Start

12 Jan 2010

David Cameron has set out Conservative plans to focus Sure Start more heavily on early intervention, reaching the disadvantaged, and better involving the voluntary sector in a speech to think-tank Demos.

Cameron reiterated the Conservative's commitment to increasing the number of Sure Start health visitors by 4,200, however he said that Sure Start "isn't working as well as it should be". The Conservative leader said his party would contract "self-governing" independent organisations, such as Home-Start and 4Children, which would be partly paid by results, to run children's centres.

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