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We know that young children have missed out on early education at a crucial period of cognitive and behavioural development. This is especially significant for vulnerable and disadvantaged children, which may widen the early development gap.<\/p>

The most effective intervention government can take to address this is to get children back into early education. Children in early years were the first priority for the reopening of education settings.<\/p>

Since 1 June, early years settings have been able to welcome back children of all ages. We want to ensure councils and early years providers can get children back into settings as quickly as possible, where they can be fully supported during this crucial period for their development.<\/p>

Fifteen hours of high quality free early education is provided for all three- and four-year olds and disadvantaged two-year olds. An additional fifteen hours (30 hours) is provided for eligible working parents for three- and four-year olds.<\/p>

We will work with the sector to explore how best to continue to support children\u2019s early development, including through the department\u2019s Hungry Little Minds campaign which we will use to continue to provide support for parents to develop their children\u2019s early language and literacy.<\/p>

Information on the Hungry Little Minds campaign can be found at:
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Since 18 September 2017, data on Sure Start children\u2019s centres has been supplied by local authorities via the department\u2019s Get Information about Schools database portal at: https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/<\/a>.<\/p>

Based on information supplied by local authorities as at end June 2019, the number of children\u2019s centres open to families and children each year and the number of children\u2019s centres closed each year since 2010 is set out in the attached table[1]:<\/p>

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[1]Figures in the table are based on information supplied by local authorities as at end June 2019. Since local authorities can update historical data at any time, figures may be different to previous answers, and are likely to change again in future. (Closures reported since June 2019 have not been included in the table to enable consistency with a statistical publication with further analysis of children\u2019s centre numbers, which is due to be published on 7 November \u2013 for completeness a total of 9 closures have not been included in the table.) The department holds some of its information on children\u2019s centre numbers for previous years manually. The numbers of children\u2019s centres open each year have been treated as estimates and rounded to the nearest 10.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4530", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Michelle Donelan"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Chippenham"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Michelle Donelan"} , "attachment" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1156209/answer/attachment/1", "fileName" : {"_value" : "4935_table_showing_children's_centres_opened_and_closed_since_2010.doc"} , "title" : "4935_table"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-11-01", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-11-01T11:44:18.197Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-10-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Children's Centres: Closures"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start centres have closed in each year since 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/534", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Chris Ruane"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Vale of Clwyd"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Chris Ruane"} ], "uin" : "4935"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1156226", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1156226/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

Prisoners set to be released within 6 years have been eligible for tuition fee loans with the consent of the prison authorities. There are no plans to change this policy.<\/p>

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The department uses the Office for National Statistics (ONS) wellbeing statistics to inform health and wellbeing policy within the Civil Service. The department also measures personal wellbeing through the annual Civil Service People Survey using the same national statistics that the ONS use for the UK population as a whole.<\/p>

The four personal well-being questions are: Life Satisfaction, Worthwhile, Happiness, and Anxiety. Further details can be found at the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/bulletins/measuringnationalwellbeing/july2017tojune2018<\/a>.<\/p>

Over the past 12 months, the department has:<\/p>