Nursery World - Positive relationships: Evaluating Practice

Looking at how children see their nursery environment gives a good reflection of practice, says Anne Gladstone.

Each year an evaluation has been carried out at Sure Start Chelmsley Wood (now Chelmsley Wood Children's Centre) to look at how we are measuring up to national and local targets.

This research, by an external evaluator from Warwick University, involves gathering evidence from different sources, including speaking to parents to get their opinions. As our project is focused on children, we thought it was important to find ways to get the children's opinions of the project too.

An Evaluation Advisory Group was formed to steer the process and to think about how to reach not only the children, but also more of the parents, for their opinions about our services. The group is made up of parents, our evaluator, team members and other professionals linked with children's centres. Several parents also agreed to pilot a project to find out what their children thought about Sure Start.

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