The Scottish Government Education Directorate commissioned GEN and Illuminate to undertake qualitative research with parents, carers and children to explore their views and experiences of early interventions, early years services and support for families with young children. It was a qualitative research exercise which has supplemented the work being carried out by the Task Groups that are working on developing the framework and both a full report and summary are available.
Additionally, during the course of the development of the Early Years Framework, task group members and researchers have provided various forms of research which have contributed to the discussions.
- Children and Young People's Services and projects in the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund Programme
- Children's Inclusion Partnership (CHIP) - a partnership between Barnardo's and Stepping Stones for Families (North Glasgow) - Summary and description of practice
- Early intervention - the future - article on role of health visitors and Solihull Approach. Copy of presentation on Solihull Approach
- Evaluation of Quarriers Ruchazie Family Resource Centre and summary
- Identifying and Quantifying the Outcomes of Community Learning and Development - Developing and Piloting of a Research Instrument
- Literature review of outcomes of community learning and development - Communities Scotland
- New Light on Adult Literacy and Numeracy in Scotland: Evidence from the 2004 survey of the 1970 British Cohort Study
- Supporting children by getting alongside families - a practice guide based on the experiences of Ruchazie Family Resource Centre.
- The benefits of play and playwork - Community and Youth Workers Union
- The PALS (Dundee) Parenting Support Programme - lessons learned from evaluation of processes and outcomes.
- What do parents feel they need? Implications of parents' perspectives of parenting programmes.