C4EO media release
2 March 2010
Are families, parents and carers getting a good deal in your area? C4EO calls for effective local practice examples
Improving the outcomes for children and young people also means looking at the generation before and what can be done to support those in the role of parents and carers, or the wider family.
The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s Services (C4EO) is conducting work aimed at helping to identify exactly ‘what works’ when it comes to improving outcomes for families, parents and carers and is now asking local areas to share their examples of good practice.
C4EO’s work on this theme covers three main priority areas. These are:
- Improving the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers.
- Improving children’s outcomes by supporting parental and carer couple relationships, and by reducing conflict and domestic violence within families.
- Improving children’s and young people’s achievement, behavioural and emotional outcomes through effective support and intervention with mothers, fathers and carers of 7-19 year olds.
C4EO are hoping that local areas with examples of work which has improved outcomes in these areas will submit them for validation and sharing across the sector. C4EO is also working closely with the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and is aware that it too has recently sought examples of practice relating to parental engagement in children’s learning. Any of these examples, which are also relevant to the priority areas above, are also welcomed to be submitted for validation by C4EO.
For more information about this call for evidence, or to find out about the validation process used by C4EO and how to submit examples, visit the Families, Parents and Carers theme page.
Click here to read validated local practice examples across other C4EO themes of work.
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Notes for editors:
The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes (C4EO) is a collaborative
centre which gathers and shares the best knowledge available of ‘what works’ to
contribute to a step change in improving outcomes for children and young people,
especially those who are most vulnerable.
An independent consortium sponsored by the Department for Children, Schools and
Families, C4EO was launched in July 2008. It has been developed for the
children’s sector from the children’s sector and works with a consortium of four
core partners who deliver key elements of its programme: NCB, the National
Foundation for Educational Research, Research in Practice and the Social Care
Institute for Excellence. C4EO is neither a regulator nor a field force. For
further information on C4EO, its themes, and the support it provides to Local
Authorities and their Children’s Trust partners visit
http://www.c4eo.org.uk
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