Title The national evaluation of Sure Start : does area-based early intervention work? / edited by Jay Belsky, Jacqueline Barnes and Edward Melhuish

Published Bristol : Policy, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 221 pages) : illustrations Contents The National Evaluation of Sure Start; Contents; List of tables and figures; Foreword; List of abbreviations; Notes on contributors; 1. The policy background to Sure Start; 2. Targeting deprived areas: the nature of the Sure Start Local Programme neighbourhoods; 3. The challenge of profiling communities; 4. The methodologies for the evaluation of complex interventions: an ongoing debate; 5. Sure Start Local Programmes: an overview of the implementation task; 6. Living with Sure Start: human experience of an early intervention programme; 7. The costs and benefits of Sure Start Local Programmes Summary Following 5 years of systemic research exploring the efficacy and impact of Sure Start Local Programmes, this book pulls together, in a single volume, the results of the extensive National Evaluation of Sure Start (NESS) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Sure Start (Programme) -- Evaluation SUBJECT Sure Start (Programme) fast Subject Community-based child welfare -- Great Britain -- Evaluation Poor children -- Government policy -- Great Britain Poor children -- Services for -- Great Britain -- Evaluation Preschool children -- Services for -- Great Britain -- Evaluation Social work with people with social disabilities -- Great Britain -- Evaluation POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies. Evaluation Poor children -- Government policy Great Britain Form Electronic book Author Belsky, Jay, 1952- Melhuish, Edward C., 1950- Barnes, Jacqueline ISBN 9781847423009 1847423000 1281385409 9781281385406

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