Bringing Back Community
Family Support From the Bottom Up
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14896844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valerie Wigfall (The Hague University of Applied Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-29 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Children & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-0605 • E-ISSN: 1099-0860 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/chi.863 |
| OpenAlex | W2051579984 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper presents findings of an evaluation of a one‐off, small scale, pilot project. Picking up where Sure Start, the government programme for families of newborns to threes, leaves off, ‘Families in Focus’ works with children aged four to 16 on a disadvantaged council estate in London. Through this route, the programme also reaches out to the families, providing a high level of on the spot local support. Feeding into the government's social exclusion agenda, the impact of the project has been significant, not least in restoring a strong sense of community to a previously alienated problem estate
Anti-social behaviour · Civil engineering · Criminology · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Estate · Government (linguistics · Housing estate · Local government · Political science · Public relations · Social exclusion · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Public Administration
Joining up the solutions
Neighbourhood and preventive strategies with children and families
Involving communities in the evaluation of programmes with ‘at risk’ children and young people
More than the sum of its parts? inter‐professional working in the education of looked after children
Community‐based evaluations in the UK
Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Programs on Cognitive and School Outcomes
| Highly cited | No |
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