Children's minister Beverley Hughes launched the report of a study by Oxford University on the DCSF-funded Early Learning Partnership Project (ELPP) yesterday at the annual conference of the Family and Parenting Institute (FPI). The FPI ran the ELPP with the aim of creating family-based educational support through voluntary sector agencies.
Ms Hughes told the conference,'We're not generally dealing with "negligent" or "bad' parenting". She said parents needed 'practical ideas, advice and confidence to do the right things at the right time', adding that services were starting to see adults as parents rather than clients.
'Just as we need to be more ambitious for children, this report shows we need to be equally ambitious with parents: giving them more credit, and thinking about what we can do to help them stretch their children, rather than just covering the basics,' said Ms Hughes.
