Analysis: Family projects - Getting the parents on board

Nursery World, 26 June 2008

Showing parents the influence they have as their children's first educators has brought great benefits in projects described by Allan Watson.

Parents play a crucial role in their children's development in early childhood and practitioners need to be trained to recognise this. This was one of the main findings from a new Oxford University research evaluation on the Early Learning Partnership Project (ELPP). The researchers also found that practitioners involved in the project began to treat parents as equals. The ELPP was set up by the Family and Parenting Institute on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families....

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