There were 524 Sure Start local programmes in England covering over 420,000 children under four. Over 400 of these are now designated as Sure Start children’s centres and we expect all Sure Start local programmes to become children’s centres in due course and contribute to our target to create 3,500 children’s centres by 2010. The 1,000th children’s centre was awarded recently, seeking out interim milestone ahead of schedule.
We do not hold information on the constituencies or counties covered by each local programme. The following table lists the number of Sure Start local programmes in each local authority and the number of children under four covered.
Local authority Number of local programmes Children covered Barking and Dagenham 4 2,585 Barnet 1 722 Barnsley 5 3,065 Bath and NE Somerset 1 842 Bedfordshire 1 762 Bexley 1 802 Birmingham 12 8,893 Blackburn with Darwen 5 3,878 Blackpool 3 1,527 Bolton 4 3,479 Bournemouth 1 640 Bradford 8 7,438 Brent 3 2,684 Brighton and Hove 2 1,022 Bristol 4 3,968 Bromley 1 643 Buckinghamshire 1 1,020 Bury 1 819 Calderdale 3 2,185 Cambridgeshire 2 1,301 Camden 5 4,948 Cheshire 4 3,253 Cornwall 7 4,792 Coventry 4 3,517 Croydon 1 1,339 Cumbria 5 4,035 Darlington 2 1,419 Derby City 4 2,534 Derbyshire 5 3,969 Devon 4 2,795 Doncaster 6 3,898 Dorset 1 794 Dudley 3 2,281 Durham County 12 8,945 Ealing 2 1,914 East Riding of Yorks 1 872 East Sussex 6 3,539 Enfield 1 1,849 Essex 4 2,584 Gateshead 4 2,683 Gloucestershire 2 1,713 Greenwich 5 3,675 Hackney 7 6,925 Halton 5 4,506 Hammersmith and Fulham 3 2,193 Hampshire 2 1,660 Haringey 6 4,871 Hartlepool 3 2,234 Havering 1 902 Herefordshire 1 720 Hillingdon 1 640 Hounslow 1 640 Isle of White 1 1,027 Islington 6 4,973 Kensington and Chelsea 2 1,741 Kent 9 6,719 Kingston Upon Hull 7 6,428 Kirklees 5 3,663 Knowsley 5 3,169 Lambeth 6 5,116 Lancashire 17 1,2342 Leeds 8 6,026 Leicester City 6 4,922 Leicestershire 1 801 Lewisham 5 3,427 Lincolnshire 7 4,987 Liverpool 10 8,081 Luton 1 741 Manchester 11 8,559 Medway Towns 1 1,124 Merton 1 739 Middlesbrough c 3,320 Milton Keynes 1 798 Newcastle upon Tyne 7 4,887 Newham 8 12,579 Norfolk 8 5,425 North East Lincolnshire c 3,240 North Lincolnshire 2 1,656 North Somerset 1 1,026 North Tyneside 3 2,262 North Yorkshire 2 1,559 Northamptonshire 4 2,623 Northumberland c 4,473 Nottingham City 8 5,837 Nottinghamshire 9 6,984 Oldham 5 3,211 Oxford City 1 541 Peterborough 3 2,394 Plymouth 4 3,642 Portsmouth 2 1,747 Reading 1 780 Redbridge 1 904 Redcar and Cleveland 4 2,733 Rochdale 5 4,704 Rotherham 3 2,465 Salford 5 3,236 Sandwell 7 5,842 Sefton 4 2,772 Sheffield 8 6,386 Shropshire 2 1,394 Slough 1 695 Solihull 1 1,059 Somerset 3 2,139 South Tyneside 5 2,554 Southampton 3 2,019 Southend on Sea 1 654 Southwark 7 6,592 St. Helens 5 12,443 Staffordshire 5 4,158 Stockport 1 412 Stockton-on-Tees 5 3,916 Stoke-on-Trent 6 4,946 Suffolk 3 2,540 Sunderland 7 5,463 Sutton 1 865 Swindon 1 804 Tameside 4 2,864 Telford and Wrekin 2 1,465 Thurrock 1 878 Torbay 2 1,458 Tower Hamlets 7 6,505 Trafford 1 429 Wakefield 4 2,953 Walsall 5 3,906 Waltham Forest 4 3,458 Wandsworth 2 1,765 Warrington 2 1,494 Warwickshire 2 1,120 West Sussex t 1,552 Westminster 3 2,536 Wigan 2 1,471 Wirral 4 3,103 Wolverhampton 5 4,226 Worcestershire 3 2,190 York 1 598 Total 524 420,149