“A parent-led evaluation of Sure Start Children’s Centres in Dorset” was published by Together for Children on 25 May 2010. The study was conducted by four volunteer Dorset—based mothers who use the children’s centres with their children. Each visited a number of centres randomly selected from the fully operational centres in Dorset. In total 19 centres were visited and evaluated, and 17 parents interviews were completed. A key feature of this piece of work was that by utilising a fresh perspective on children’s centres, issues that may go unnoticed by professionals working within the environment were noticed by the parent evaluators. The findings show that most centres are doing most things right, but a number of suggestions for improvement are made. The parent evaluators have created a full training pack to include all the tools a parent needs to evaluate a centre, alongside a training day for new parent evaluators. A training toolkit is also in development for wider distribution. To download the report visit this website.