Sure Start works) or on children's health. However, in 2016 the British Medical Journal noted that the benefits of Sure Start to children and families were being eroded by austerity cuts and that, ""disadvantaged families are at greatest risk from [these] austerity cuts"". In 2017, the evidence concerning the effectiveness of Sure Start from both the NESS and the ECCE studies was summarised by a Briefing Paper that was written for the (then) Members of the UK Parliament. Sure Start Sure Start is a UK Government area-based initiative, announced in 1998 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, applying primarily
Exchequer of Normandy Exchequer of Normandy The Exchequer of Normandy ("Échiquier de Normandie") or Exchequer of Rouen ("Échiquier de Rouen") was the exchequer of the Duchy of Normandy. According to the "Dialogue concerning the Exchequer", in the late twelfth century there were competing views as to the origins of the English Exchequer, with some arguing that it was an Anglo-Saxon institution and other that it post-dated the Norman conquest, but none arguing that it originated in Normandy. By the time of the "Dialogue", however, there was an exchequer in Normandy. In 1315 the Norman Barons pressed a new charter, the "Charte aux Normands"