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- 1. Poor parents, poor development and early intervention Karen Clarke University of Manchester
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- The aim of policy is to equip children from poor families to compete more effectively with middle class children. Confusion between ability and advantage (p.17 Field)
- PBR and Sure Start: “proposed core purpose of children’s centres: to improve child development and school readiness among young children and to reduce inequalities. This includes identifying, reaching and supporting the most disadvantaged families to improve their parenting aspirations and skills and to promote family health and life chances.” “Overcoming data and measurement challenges will be a key focus.” Tom Jeffery DG Children, Young People and Families, DfE the Government has made £3million available this year for up to 30 local areas to trial payment by results in children’s centres. The trials will look at how to reward local authorities and centres on how well they reach and support the most vulnerable families to narrow gaps in child development, raise attainment at the end of the foundation years and improve family health and wellbeing. Southampton, Oxfordshire, Oldham, Gloucestershire, Devon, Croydon, Blackpool, Barnsley, and Barking and Dagenham. The measures to be tested in the trial areas are: Early Years Foundation Stage Profile assessments – to narrow the gap between children at the age of five, so that more children reach expected levels of development at the end of Reception Breastfeeding rates at six to eight-weeks – to be developed in partnership with the Department of Health’s plan for a ‘health premium’ for public health outcomes Parenting/ home learning environment – for example, completion of evidence-based parenting programmes by vulnerable families. Sustained contact with families in greatest need – so that children’s centres are targeting the most needy families effectively. Payment-by-results will be trialled at both national and local levels, that is between the DfE and local authorities, and between local authorities and individual children’s centres. Earlier this month a new ‘core purpose’ for children’s centre was also published, focussing on ‘school readiness’ and supporting outcomes, particularly for the most vulnerable families. (Nursery World 18 July 2011, Policy and Politics) August 26 th 2011: Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster, Birmingham and Leicestershire These areas contain more than 6,000 "troubled families", leading such chaotic lives that taxpayers fork out more than £100,000 a year per family. But this cost can be shrunk by a dedicated team working intensively with the families to keep children in school, end domestic violence, force adults to kick drugs and drink and deal with mental health issues. Last week, in a response to the riots, David Cameron said all such troubled families would be helped within four years. (Guardian August 26 2011) Investors will take a share of savings made by the government in a four-year period. These profits could be substantial, with a pilot scheme in Westminster showing that £20,000 "invested" in a problem family could save £40,000 that would have been spent deploying social workers, police and child protection staff. That first £5m bond, backed by the Ministry of Justice, aims to resettle 3,000 ex-offenders in Peterborough and reduce reoffending. If crimes committed by the former offenders fall by 7.5%, the funders could see an £8m payout. In England, the rich will be tapped to "invest" in problem household bonds. Investors pay a company to get results and take profits if it works. Taxpayers only pay investors if the promised savings materialise. If they don't, then the rich lose their money. (Randeep Ramesh Guardian 30 th August 2011)
- Centre Forum report: Parenting Matters: early years and social mobility. 5 a day Read to your child for 15 minutes Play with your child on the floor for 10 minutes Talk with your child for 20 minutes with the television off Adopt positive attitudes towards your child and praise them frequently Give your child a nutritious diet to aid development improving the Home Learning Environment of children from lower-income backgrounds would be the single most positive step that could be taken to begin to reduce the opportunity-deficit that many currently face from birth an additional child benefit supplement available to the 20 per cent most disadvantaged families (with children of a certain age) but contingent in some way on participation in one of the proposed parenting initiatives, a mechanism could be considered that would operate as a two pronged attack on both poverty itself and on the causes of poverty . from the later months of pregnancy (and thus tied to attendance at antenatal classes) through until the child reaches the age of two (contingent at all times in some way upon participation in a recognised parenting initiative) and the point at which the free pre-school offer begins.