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Young parents gain from family nurse support
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
8 July 2008
The Family Nurse Partnership programme is helping younger parents to cope and improving parenting practices, an independent evaluation has found.
An analysis by a team at Birkbeck College, University of London, of the first year of the programme, launched by the Government in ten pilot areas in March 2007 and rolled out to a further 20 areas in March 2008, found that it was effectively targeting younger parents. Eighty-eight per cent of families where parents were aged under 20 were enrolled on the programme and 81 per cent of families with parents between the ages of 20 to 23 years...
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