Learning from Sure Start

Foreword: Naomi Eisenstadt, Director of Sure Start, Department for Education & Skills

Contributors

List of abbreviations

Part One: Introduction

1 Why we should learn from Sure Start
Peter Hannon & Linda Fox

2 Listening to families: a survey of parents' views
Jo Weinberger

Part Two: Improving and emotional development

3 Family Support
Jo Weinberger

4 'Connecting with our kids' parenting programme
Margaret Drake with Jo Weinberger and Peter Hannon

5 Meeting the needs of teenage parents

Deborah Crofts

Part Three: Improving health

6 Low birth weight - exploring the contribution of nutrition
Fiona Ford

7 Supporting breast feeding mothers
Sue Battersby

8 The impact of Sure Start on health visiting
Ann Rowe

9 Child Safety Scheme
Robin Carlisle

Part Four: Improving children's ability to learn

10 Quality of play and learning opportunities
Simon Martinez

11 Community teaching in a Sure Start context
Jackie Marsh and Jan Forde

12 Screening and language development

Caroline Pickstone

13 Media, popular culture and young children
Jackie Marsh

14 A dialogic reading intervention programme for parents and preschoolers
Anne Morgan

Part Five: Strengthening families and communities

15 Community involvement
Helen Lomas & Peter Hannon

16 The Young Families' Advice Service
Imogen Hale

17 Community research
Jo Weinberger

Part Six: What have we learned? What do we need to know?

18 Bringing it together: the role of the programme manager
Linda Fox, programme manager, talks to the editors

19 Looking to the future
Peter Hannon,Caroline Pickstone, Jo Weinberger & Linda Fox

Appendices

Appendix 1 List of Sure Start services

Appendix 2 Interview schedule for survey of parents of 4-year-olds, condensed version

Index