Better start £5m boost helps East Lancashire families (From Chorley Citizen)
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Better start £5m boost helps East Lancashire families
11:00pm Wednesday 30th January 2013 in East Lancashire
MORE than 200 families in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale have benefited from a ‘better start’ thanks to a £5million programme.
Free school meal pupils have been targeted by the Best Start Lancashire initiative, to provide extra support for reception, Year 1 and Year 2 age children.
County council chiefs began the programme in 2011-12 with a £2million investment and matched that funding for 2012-13.
An additional £1million has been earmarked for the coming year and beyond that it is hoped schools will use ‘pupil premium’ payments for free meal students to continue the work.
In Burnley 142 families were offered advice on bottle-feeding, potty-training and speech development, and individual support packages were put in place where necessary.
This school year the focus will be on helping parents to fill out school admission forms.
Fifty-five parents in Pendle took part in learning courses and 22 gained English and child support qualifications. Extra help with securing learning, training and employment opportunities is on offer in 2013.
Meanwhile in Rossendale school attendance was improved for five families and support packages offered for another 20.
Comments(7)
lmhjones
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12:17am Thu 31 Jan 13
2 for 5p
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7:19am Thu 31 Jan 13
lmhjones wrote:wake up and smell the coffee you cretin.
do you have insider knowledge that the families selected have issues with cigs booze and drugs?
BuckoTheMoose
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7:21am Thu 31 Jan 13
2 for 5p
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9:50am Thu 31 Jan 13
the gutter filth that are receiving this help will be on 2 of the above substances , some of them all three.
jack daniels
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10:11am Thu 31 Jan 13
2 for 5p wrote:considering many of these people receiving this support will be from asian heritage I can only conclude buck's and your comment is worth s***.
fags booze drugs the gutter filth that are receiving this help will be on 2 of the above substances , some of them all three.
sen c ble
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5:14pm Thu 31 Jan 13
jack daniels wrote:Typical nory commenting his usual 8ull. Many scroungers you will find are your close chums, and I mean your relies. U total 455 scraper, and that's a compliment!
2 for 5p wrote:considering many of these people receiving this support will be from asian heritage I can only conclude buck's and your comment is worth s***.
fags booze drugs the gutter filth that are receiving this help will be on 2 of the above substances , some of them all three.
buckoff says...
11:40pm Wed 30 Jan 13