The National Evaluation of Sure Start: Does area-based early intervention work? - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861349491 ISBN 13: 9781861349491

Publisher: Policy Press, 2007

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Review:

This complex and comprehensive evaluation is written with admirable skill and diplomacy. For those of us in health, education and social care, it focuses on raising the profile of preventive action in the early years. Mitch Blair, River Island Paediatric and Child Health Academic Centre, Imperial College

Each chapter in this book provides a robust, well referenced and detailed analysis of the various aspects of the SSLPs and of the on-going monitoring undertaken by NESS. British Journal of Social Work, Vol 38:6, 2008."This book offers students and professionals, policymakers and evaluators working with young children and families a full overview of the Sure Start programme... The book contains some rigorous analysis of complex data but also some very accessible writing by academics." Lynda Hassall, Community Care June 2008

This is an excellent piece of work, which I recommend to service planners, students of social policy and service providers alike, since it, and the more detailed published papers it references, contains useful lessons at all levels. Children and Society

A useful piece of research analysis and policy discussion. D Saltiel, University of Leeds

Synopsis:

This book reviews the history of policies pertaining to child health and well-being which preceded and set the stage for Sure Start. It provides insight into how SSLPs were expected to function and how they actually operated, both in terms of their strengths, weaknesses and costs. It also demonstrates their impact on children, families and communities, shedding light on the variation in impact and the causes for it. With a foreword from Naomi Eisenstadt, former Director of the Sure Start Programme and concluding chapter by Professor Sir Michael Rutter, member of the government's scientific advisory board overseeing NESS, this book provides an insightful critique of SSLP policy and NESS that will be of interest to students of child development, families and communities, as well as policymakers and policy scholars, local and national providers of services to children and families and evaluation specialists.

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1861349491
• ISBN 13: 9781861349491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Belsky Jay