Education and Skills written question – answered at on 22 March 2005.
Mr Colin Pickthall
PPS (Rt Hon Jack Straw, Secretary of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate she has made of the number of midwives required for the Sure Start programme in the North West.
Margaret Hodge
Minister of State (Education and Skills) (Children)
holding answer
No estimate has been made of the number of midwives required for the Sure Start programme in the North West region. This would be for local discussion and agreement. Ante-natal and post-natal services, undertaken by midwives and health visitors, are a key element within the core health service activities undertaken by Sure Start local programmes and they will be part of the core services that will be offered in children's centres serving the most disadvantaged communities. These services are provided in different ways—through the direct employment of midwives to work with families living within the catchment area of a local programme, through secondment opportunities, and in partnership with primary care trusts.
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