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
Published
London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007
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
Summary
Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children. It boils down the huge amount of knowledge and experience generated by the Sure Start programmes and local evaluation studies, with chapters encompassing child development and healthcare, partnership working with existing local services, parental employment and supporting families with young children, reaching out to marginalised groups and st
