Changes in the characteristics of Sure Start Local Programme areas in rounds 1 to 4, between 2000/2001 and 2004/2005 (2007)

Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) were area-based, concentrating on relatively small neighbourhoods. Their aim was to improve the health and well being of young children under 4 years old and their families, so that children will have a greater opportunity to flourish when they go to school. This fifth and final report from the Local Context Analysis (LCA) module of the National Evaluation of Sure Start (NESS) documents change over five years in the characteristics of Sure Start Local Programme (SSLP) areas in Rounds 1 to 4 and determines factors associated with more or less change.