| SureStart
Loughborough East: a Baseline Study of Parents' Views
CRSP was commissioned to undertake a 'baseline' survey by
SureStart Loughborough East. SureStart is the cornerstone of the
Government's drive to tackle child poverty and social exclusion.
It is targeted at children under four and their families, and aims
to give children a better start in life through delivering coordinated
community-based services that aim to:
- improve social and emotional development;
- improve health;
- improve learning;
- strengthen families and communities; and
- improve the availability, accessibility, affordability
and quality of childcare.
There are over 520 local SureStart programmes,
concentrated in areas of relative deprivation. Each programme is
run by a Partnership, which in the case of Loughborough East is
headed by NCH.
Each local programme is required to carry out (or commission) a
local evaluation. Part of this evaluation includes conducting a
'baseline' survey of the views of local parents of young
children about the services that are currently available to them.
CRSP has been carrying out this survey for SureStart Loughborough
East using a variety of methods to suit the needs of the diverse
community, which includes many different minority ethnic groups.
Methods used include a postal survey, face-to-face surveys, and
discussions with parents and staff. The results of the research
are informing the development of the programme (for example, by
identifying which services are most important to parents) and will
provide a benchmark against which to assess future satisfaction
with, and usage of, local provision for families with pre-school
children.
The baseline survey was completed in October 2004. The research
team then worked with the local SureStart team to disseminate the
results of the study to the community members, parents and professionals
working in the area, to enable the findings to feed into the development
of the SureStart programme over the next three years.
Project team
Karen Kellard, Kate
Legge, Lynne Cox
and Kate Ashton-Brooks.
Dates
Feb-Nov 2004
Sponsor
NCH Action for
Children
Publication
Kellard, K., (2005) SureStart Loughborough East Baseline Report, CRSP Research Report 2.
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