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HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeMy hon. Friend’s local authority will now benefit from this extra funding, and it will make a tremendous difference to children and families across his community. Like my hon.…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeMy hon. Friend speaks with real power, real expertise and personal experience on these matters, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to discuss much of this with her,…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeThat is critical, which is why we need to bring together healthcare, education, libraries, childminders and voluntary and community groups in that endeavour to ensure that all our…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeI can confirm to my hon. Friend that his local authority will benefit from the extra funding. The area is one of those not currently funded, but it will be receiving funding…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for raising important constituency matters. I will be happy to look into the details. If he could share some more information with me…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeAs the hon. Lady will understand, I cannot comment on individual cases, but if she writes to me with the details, I can make sure that Ofsted looks carefully at the matters she…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeThe hon. Lady asks a number of questions and I am grateful for her broad welcome for the intent of this Government to make sure that all of our children get the best start in…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeAs the hon. Gentleman knows, I was in Northern Ireland at the end of last year, during which time I was able, as part of my work co-chairing the child poverty taskforce, to meet…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeThe right hon. Gentleman has set out with great clarity why the system we have at the moment just is not working. His experience is that of many Members across this House; I, too,…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeIt is hard to top my hon. Friend’s question and I will not begin to try to make further ’90s references. What I can say to her is that we are drawing on the best of Sure Start,…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeThe hon. Lady is absolutely right about the importance of mental health in our schools, which is why we are rolling out mental health support teams right across the country. What…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeThe hon. Member is right to seek to ensure that families facing extra challenges or struggles and the most disadvantaged families have access to Best Start family hubs. Again, the…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeIt is only through my hon. Friend’s election and through a Labour Government that this investment will be coming to her community. The first investment will start to flow this…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeMy hon. Friend is right about access to both family support services and health services. I have discussed this with the Health Secretary, and I know he takes a keen interest in…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeWe will ensure that voluntary and community groups have an important role to play in our family hubs. I am grateful for everything my hon. Friend does to champion Harlow and his…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeYes, it is this Labour Government who will ensure that families get better access to health support and family services, and that they can do so much more rapidly. My hon. Friend…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeYes, I can confirm that. The hon. Member is right to draw attention to the critical work of our health visitors and our speech and language therapists, who do some amazing work to…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeI know the hon. Gentleman always champions his community and the needs of rural communities across our country. With the additional £500 million for local authorities to deliver…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeAt the Budget and at the spending review, we allocated additional investment to support councils. However, I recognise what the hon. Member says about the importance of timely…07 Jul 2025HANSARD Giving Every Child the Best Start in LifeThe hon. Lady’s local authority area is not currently funded through the programme and it will receive funding, including a share of a £12 million development grant, which we will…07 Jul 2025