What did Sure Start do for youth offending, children's social care, and school behaviour?

Sure Start was an integral part of early years policy in England for over a decade, aiming to provide a holistic range of services for families with young children in one location. It operated on a large scale, with over 3,000 centres open by 2010, before the programme was scaled back. Previous work by the IFS has found that it improved children's health and educational outcomes over the medium term.
In this online event we present further findings on the effect of Sure Start, in work funded by the Nuffield Foundation. IFS researchers will outline how Sure Start shaped other outcomes through childhood and adolescence, including youth offending, children's social care need, and behaviour in school. Following the presentations by IFS researchers, we will have responses from Leon Feinstein (Department of Education, University of Oxford) and Alex Sutherland (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford).
This event will be chaired by Paul Johnson, Director of IFS.