Supporting Children and Families: Lessons from Sure Start for Evidence-Based Practice in Health, Social Care and Education

By: Brid Featherstone and Mairi Ann Cullen and Justine Schneider and Barbara Sianesi and Mark Avis and Sarah Chaudhary and Susan Mcquail and Nicky Nicholls and Valerie Wigfall and Pauline Hall and Marjorie Finnigan and Ann Martin and Martin Manby and Jill Jesson and Graham Bowpitt and Paul Leighton and Miranda Thurston and Alissa Goodman and Pamela Graham and Lynn Mckenna and Geoff Lindsay and John Carpenter and Sharon Hodgson and Matthew Pearson and Alison Edgley

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Synopsis: 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 strengthening communities. In addition to summarizing the findings of numerous innovative projects, contributors draw on their experiences of the successes and challenges to offer advice for those engaged in current and future practice. Each chapter concludes with `three lessons for Children's Centres'. With its strong focus on practice implications, 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.