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| Project title |
Early Years
policy and services |
| Funding details |
Funded by the Scottish
Executive |
| Research
team |
Sarah
Cunningham Burley, Fran
Wasoff, Sarah Morton, Ann
McGuckin,
Sheila MacIvor, with Kerstin Hinds from the Scottish Centre
for Social Research |
| Dates |
March - December
2003 |
| Type of project |
Completed research
project |
| Keywords |
Children and young people, education
and training, service provision & families / relationships |
| Project description |
Young children have been the
focus of a range of government initiatives since 1997, aimed
at improving outcomes for children in later life. These initiatives
have included Sure Start Scotland, provision of nursery places,
and other local and national initiatives. In the last few years
there has been a move to integrate these policies, and to bring
together the agencies providing services to these groups.
CRFR along with the National Centre for Social Research conducted
a 2 stage evaluation of integration of early years policies
on behalf of the Scottish Executive. The first stage was a feasibility
study, investigating what indicators might be used to evaluate
outcomes, and consulting with a range of stakeholders on their
views of feasible and practical evaluation. Stage 2 comprised
an ‘indicator study’ involving compiling and reporting
on existing indicators on child and family health and well-being,
and how they might be used to evaluate outcomes for children
together with two case studies (one urban and one rural a combination
of in-depth interviews and focus groups were used with service
planners, providers and users in each of the areas. Existing
evaluations were reviewed and local services mapped, with a
view to gaining a picture of integration in each area. |
Publications/
dissemination |
|
| Contact |
Sarah
Morton |
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