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Supporting children and families : lessons from Sure Start for evidence-based practice in health, social care and education / edited by Justine Schneider, Mark Avis and Paul Leighton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sure Start (Programme).
- Children with social disabilities--Services for--Great Britain.
- Children with social disabilities.
- Day care centers--Great Britain.
- Day care centers.
- Children with social disabilities--Services for.
- Great Britain.
- Early childhood education--Great Britain.
- Early childhood education.
- Family services--Great Britain.
- Family services.
- Medical care--Great Britain.
- Medical care.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
- Summary:
- Supporting Children and Families consolidates the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in the UK - Sure Start, a programme designed to support families and improve the emotional development, health and education of children.
- Contributors summarise the huge amount of knowledge and experience generated by Sure Start programmes through local evaluation studies, with chapters encompassing child health and development, partnership working with local services, parental employment, supporting families and strengthening communities. Drawing on their experiences of the successes and challenges of these projects, they offer valuable information for improving current and future practice in children's services.
- With a strong focus on evidence-based practice, this book is indispensable reading for practitioners working in health, social and educational services for children and families, as well as students or researchers, and policymakers in these fields.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Sure Start in context
- Introduction to health and child development
- Evaluation of a pampering group
- Increasing breastfeeding rates : issues and approaches
- Evaluating the impact of a child injury prevention project
- Training for language-enriched pre-school settings
- A perinatal mental health project
- Introduction to partnership working
- Parental involvement : engagement with the development of services
- Partnership between parents and professionals
- Local programmes and social services : lessons in partnership
- Perceptions of statutory service providers of local programmes
- Introduction to paths to education and employment
- Early education and children's outcomes : how long do the impacts last?
- Lifelong learning and parental employability
- Working with parents as colleagues
- Introduction to supporting families
- Understanding family support
- Providing respite for parents
- What difference does outreach make to family support?
- Engaging with men
- Issues in evaluating family support services
- Introduction to community development
- Experiences of parental involvement in a multi-ethnic setting
- Inclusion and diversity : issues for travellers
- Changing conceptions of community
- Conclusion : lessons from Sure Start local programmes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781843105060
- 1843105063
- OCLC:
- 165082376
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