Planning early childhood services in 2020: learning from practice and research on children’s centres and family hubs
The report sets out to understand contemporary local practice relating to children’s centres and family hubs, and to explore how far this current practice, alongside research and evidence, can guide the future development of these important aspects of early childhood services. View report summary.
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The Best Start for Life: a vision for the 1,001 critical days
Accessibility and Inclusion | Birth Registration | CAMHS & Infant Mental Health Services | Children Centre | Commissioner | Early Years (0-5) | Funding | Governance | Health Visiting & School Nurses | IAPT- Parent MH | Integration | Midwifery and antenatal support | Parents | Perinatal Mental Health Services | Policy | Reducing Parental Conflict ServicesDeveloped as part of the Early Years Healthy Development Review led by Andrea Leadsom MP in 2020, this document outlines 6 areas for action to improve the health outcomes of all babies in England. The review champions the implementation of Family Hubs to ‘give every baby the best start for life’.
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Reducing Parental Conflict programme evaluation – report on early implementation
Commissioner | Domestic Abuse Services | Evaluation | Integration | Manager | Parents | Practice Guidance | Practitioner | Reducing Parental Conflict ServicesThis report is an evaluation summary of the findings from the first nine months of the Reducing Parental Conflict (RCP) Programme. The programme aims to help avoid the damage that parental conflict causes to children through the provision of evidence-based parental conflict support, training for practitioners working with families and enhancing local authority and partner services. The programme seeks to address conflict below the threshold of domestic abuse. The report evaluates the three areas which correspond to the programme elements: face-to-face intervention delivery, training, and local integration.
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Pillars of community: why communities and what matters to them
Age/Stage | Audience | Childcare Provision | Coproduction and Participation | Housing Support Services | Integration | PolicyThis report investigates widespread concern over the decline in local community life in the UK over recent generations and sets out how to enable communities to thrive by strengthening each pillar of local community; security, connection, and belonging. Research by the Centre for Social Justice shows that the decline in community has manifested experiences of loneliness, insecurity, and a feeling of being ‘left behind’, and it is important that people feel a sense of security, connection and belonging in their local community to lead a flourishing life.
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