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The Treneere', area of Penzance showing as the highest area of deprivation, 13% are unemployed, 46% are in receipt of income support and 16.8% of adults are illiterate. During 1998 there were a total of 235 children referred to social services 98 of which were aged 0-4 years old. With regard to education, of the children attending the infant and primary schools in the area 33.4% are entitled to free school meals, the average in the county being 15.4%. 54% of the pupils between the two schools are registered with special educational needs. Of the 244 primary schools in Cornwall the two schools ranked 1s and 4th in the deprivation rank. Along with these figures strong evidence shows high levels of violence, high levels of riotism, high levels of drug abuse and a complete absence of community facilities. .
Figures taken from the SureStart Trailblazer', proposal .
As with all Social Planning the government specifies a time limit to achieve the projects aims, goals and ultimately to improve living conditions. The SureStart', project has a specified time limit of 2 years, in this time limit the project aims to achieve the following: - .
- Improve social and emotional development .
- Reduce the number of primary school exclusions .
- Cut by 10% the number of children on the child abuse register .
- Reduce the number of post-natal depression .
- 5% reduction in the number of low weight birth babies .
- 10% reduction in children admitted to hospital with gastroenteritis, respiratory problems and severe injuries .
- 90% of children to reach normal speech and language milestones by 18 months and 3 years .
- 100% under 4's are to have good quality play and learning facilities .
- 75% of families are to report they have had an improvement in the services provided by 2002 .
- Parent representation on the local board .
- Juveniles are to have less contact with the criminal justice system .
- Drug related crime on the decrease .