The Sure Start Management Committee is the main driver of the Sure Start project as a commissioned service, having responsibility for the project’s governance and oversight of its operational management. The Committee is responsible for ensuring the achievement of Sure Start aims and objectives at a local level, and for the financial probity of the project, being corporately accountable to the Childcare Partnerships.

Current Management Committee members:

• Chair - Theresa Brady, Ionad na Fuiseoige
• Vice-Chair - Diarmuid Moore, Early Years the Organisation
• Secretary - Judith Searle, Barnardos
• Member - Florence Davidson, Education
• Member - David Simpson, Colin Neighborhood Partnership
• Member - Gerry Heery, Social Work
• Member - Sarah Grant-Jones, Action Mental Health
• Member - Lisa McClean, Footprints Women's Centre
• Member - Claire LeMahieu, Good Shepherd Nursery School
• Advisor - Lynda Vladeanu, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust