{"id":3346,"date":"2011-04-03T18:21:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T16:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2011-04-03T18:21:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T16:21:47","slug":"sure-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"Sure Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sure Start programme is one of the best legacies of the last government. It not only teaches toddlers, but\u00a0as important these days, it helps mothers (and fathers) acquire parenting skills, which they so often lack. Since the sixties many of the old wisdoms have been cast aside, so that parenting is no longer instinctive and is\u00a0sometimes almost non-existent.\u00a0Labour spotted this and the remedy has proved a hit with young parents and is\u00a0almost universally popular.<\/p>\n<p>It would be bad for the country and foolish politically if this\u00a0 now\u00a0were put in jeopardy. Of course there have to be cuts, but as stated in a recent post, across the board percentages are an arbitrary and potentially inefficient way of applying savings. Once again the Education Department looks a spasmodic operation unable to think in a joined up way.\u00a0Disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sure Start programme is one of the best legacies of the last government. It not only teaches toddlers, but\u00a0as important these days, it helps mothers (and fathers) acquire parenting skills, which they so often lack. Since the sixties many of the old wisdoms have been cast aside, so that parenting is no longer instinctive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}