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Spending Review
To work with parents-to-be, parents and children to promote the physical, intellectual and social development of babies and young children - particularly those who are disadvantaged - so that they flourish and are ready to learn when they get to school, and thereby break the cycle of disadvantage for the current generation of young children.
Objective I: improving social and emotional development.
1. Reduce the proportion of children aged 0-3 in the 500 Sure Start areas who are re-registered within the space of 12 months on the child protection register by 20 per cent by 2004.
Objective II: improving health.
2. Achieve by 2004 in the 500 Sure Start areas, a 10 per cent reduction in mothers who smoke in pregnancy.
Objective III: improving children's ability to learn.
3. Achieve by 2004 for children aged 0-3 in the 500 Sure Start areas, a reduction of five percentage points in the number of children with speech and language problems requiring specialist intervention by the age of four.
Objective IV: strengthening families and communities.
4. Reduce the number of 0-3 year old children in Sure Start areas living in households where no one is working by 2004.
The Ministers responsible for this Public Service Agreement are the Minister of State for Public Health, as the Chair of the Sure Start Steering Group, and the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, as the responsible Cabinet Minister.
