Stop Start: Survival, Decline or Closure? Children's Centres in England, 2018

Autor/inn/en	Smith, George; Sylva, Kathy; Smith, Teresa; Sammons, Pam; Omonigho, Aghogho
Institution	Sutton Trust (England)
Titel	Stop Start: Survival, Decline or Closure? Children's Centres in England, 2018
Quelle	(2018), (43 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Child Care Centers; Disadvantaged Environment; Young Children; Family Programs; Integrated Services; Public Agencies; Public Officials; Program Effectiveness; At Risk Persons; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Frühe Kindheit; Family program; Familienprogramm; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Risikogruppe
Abstract	Latest research from the authors and their team at the University of Oxford has used administrative data, a survey of local authorities, and a series of case studies to paint a picture of what has happened to children's centres across England. The six case studies include Londonborough, Portcity, Shipcity, Rivershire, Midshire, and Northport. Findings show decline, both in numbers and services, but also adaptation and a struggle to survive. A key initiative under the last Labour government, Sure Start children's centres bring together services for young children and their families and act as the gateway to more specialised provision. From 2005 onwards, responsibility for children's centres was increasingly devolved to local authority level and under the coalition government after 2010, the budget was no longer ring-fenced, but merged with other programmes. By 2013, national guidance on the 'core purpose' of children's centres shifted focus to targeting 'high need' families, rather than open access to universal services. The result has been to move children's centres away from the original idea of an open access neighbourhood centre. 'Stop Start' highlights how services are now much more thinly spread and as national direction has weakened, provision has diversified. Local authorities now employ a variety of strategies to survive in an environment of declining resources and loss of strategic direction. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01