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
Chamberlain of the Exchequer by the monarch. Appointed by the junior Chamberlain in Fee (usually the owner of the manor of Highworth) until 1290, when that office was forfeited to the Crown, and thereafter by the monarch. Chamberlain of the Exchequer The Chamberlains of the Exchequer were officials of the English Exchequer from its creation until 10 October 1826, when the offices were abolished and their duties transferred to the Auditor of the Exchequer. The chamberlains originated as subordinates of the master chamberlain assigned to serve in the treasury, and migrated into the Exchequer as it became established under Henry I. The office of