[PDF] Top 20 Evaluation of Sure Start Bramley 2001 2007

... Sure Start nationally has been indicating for the past twelve months that local Sure Starts would be expected to undertake Cost Benefit Analyses in their ...local Sure Starts' budgets will ... See full document

... As a result, 80 women who had some contact, either face to face or via telephone contact only, with the support worker were identified. Fifteen of these women were randomly selected. Women were telephoned by a Sylheti ... See full document

... There were felt to be a number of potential advantages to using photography and visual images to gain the views of parents. As well as being seen as a novel and ‘fun’ approach and an effective way of stimulating ... See full document

... Teenage Pregnancy (SEU 1999) and UNICEF (2001) made international comparisons between countries with low and high teenage pregnancy rates. Generally speaking social inequality has been identified in both data ... See full document

... It became clear during interviews with programme staff that the distinction between programmes categorised as ‘high’, ‘intermediate’ or ‘low’ was blurred. Programmes’ account of father involvement in the survey ... See full document

... The typologies have also been critiqued. First, they rely upon simplified dichotomies of child versus adult power, marginalising the role of relationships (Hinton, 2006) and masking the complex nature of power ... See full document

... Hillmarton Sure Start area was considered to be the control for the quantitative ...Holloway Sure Start area, differences were observed in some outcome ... See full document

... of Sure Start areas as part of this ...by Sure Start indicating a good communication system, although some felt they would have liked information about Sure Start services ... See full document

... 22. In the first two years some of the zone's resources were wasted. Substantial sums were invested in computer hardware which did not work. This situation has been costly to rectify. Other projects, such as ... See full document

... the Sure Start Mellow Valley ...from Sure Start and the Little London Area Housing Office meet regularly and work closely together to help local parents to resolve their housing ... See full document

... Salford Sure Start Partnership Board meeting on August 8 th 2004 outlines two recording systems used by Home-Start ...for Sure Start ...of Sure Start families; (c) has no ... See full document

... the Sure Start crèche and John was involved in some of the activities for ...to Sure Start for ...skills. Sure Start also provided emotional support to John through this period ... See full document

... (Bramley, 2007; Bramley et al., 1998; Gill & Bramley, 2013), moderation and marking of scripts and portfolios in areas such as writing (Heldsinger & Humphry, 2010, 2013; Pollitt, ... See full document

... The ultimate goal of Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) was to enhance the life chances for young children growing up in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Children in this type of neighbourhood are at risk of ... See full document

... with Sure Start programmes for 7 of the 14 outcomes ...in Sure Start areas showed better social development, exhibiting more positive social behaviour, and greater independence/ ... See full document

... Summary and Conclusion The Baseline User Satisfaction Survey was designed to collect parents’ views on local services and facilities for families of children 0­4 years across the five ar[r] ... See full document

... This evaluation was conducted to make a preliminary assessment of the impact of bilingual breastfeeding support work on Bangladeshi women and inform decisions about extending this service to other ... See full document

... Promoting diverse images: In some programmes, it was recognised that positive images of minorities was an important way both of stressing the commitment of the programme to diversity and ensuring that it was not ... See full document

... On the whole, RTPCs felt that the move of the TPU to be part of the new Children, Young People and Families Directorate in the DfES was positive and would help with issues such as mainstreaming and promoting better links ... See full document

... This period has been a difficult one for the Health Visiting team. A severe staffing shortage in other areas of Salford necessitated the transfer of one the team, reducing the available Health Visitor hours almost to the ... See full document