Communities of children’s centres: decline and fall

Goy, P. (2018) Communities of children’s centres: decline and fall. In: Sykes, G. and Teszenyi, E. (eds.) Young Children and Their Communities: Understanding Collective Social Responsibility. London: Routledge. pp. 99-109.

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Abstract:	The history of Children Centres is well documented with their roots traced to the Head Start programme developed in the United States to support low income families. The latest wave of Children’s Centres developed out of the Sure Start Local Programmes of the late 1990s, provided targeted services for the most deprived and disadvantaged areas in the United Kingdom (Lewis, 2011). Children’s Centres in the English context are ‘service hubs run by a combination of state maintained and voluntary providers’ (Oberhuemer et al., 2010:457). These hubs were designed to offer services for locally defined needs of communities to ensure a better start, a sure(r) start for children and support for the families to achieve this. The principles of operation were based on those of the Sure Start Local Programmes which aimed ‘to involve parents; to avoid stigma; to ensure lasting support for children and families; to act in culturally appropriate and sensitive ways; to achieve specific objectives; and to promote accessibility for all local families’ (Lewis, 2011:76).
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Women > HQ767 Children. Child development
Creators:	Goy, Peter
Editors:	Sykes, Gillian and Teszenyi, Eleonora
Publisher:	Routledge
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > Early Years
Date:	5 June 2018
Date Type:	Publication
Page Range:	pp. 99-109
Title of Book:	Young Children and Their Communities: Understanding Collective Social Responsibility
Place of Publication:	London
Number of Pages:	144
Language:	English
ISBN:	9781138558526
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/10421

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