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Children's Centres and Parental Engagement: Lessons from the English Experience

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Clarke, K. Children's Centres and Parental Engagement: Lessons from the English Experience. Sozialer Fortschritt, 59(4), 108-112. https://doi.org/10.3790/sfo.59.4.108
Clarke, Karen "Children's Centres and Parental Engagement: Lessons from the English Experience" Sozialer Fortschritt 59.4, , 108-112. https://doi.org/10.3790/sfo.59.4.108
Clarke, Karen: Children's Centres and Parental Engagement: Lessons from the English Experience, in: Sozialer Fortschritt, vol. 59, iss. 4, 108-112, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/sfo.59.4.108

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Children's Centres and Parental Engagement: Lessons from the English Experience

Clarke, Karen

Sozialer Fortschritt, Vol. 59 (2010), Iss. 4 : pp. 108–112

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1Clarke, Karen, University of Manchester, School of Social Sciences, Arthur Lewis Building, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK.

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The UK Government is in the process of introducing a universal system of Children's Centres offering multi-agency services for parents and their pre-school children in England. The Government has placed considerable emphasis on the importance of engaging all parents in the Centres. This paper considers the different meanings of ‘parental engagement’ and the evidence about the benefits to parents, children and communities of different forms of engagement. It concludes that to deliver the widest possible benefits it is important that Children's Centres continue to focus on engaging parents not just as service users, but also as providers and decision makers.

 

Elternarbeit in Children's Centres: Lehren aus den englischen Erfahrungen

Die britische Regierung beabsichtigt in England die flächendeckende Einführung von Children's Centres, die eine breite Palette an Dienstleistungen für Eltern und ihre Kinder im Vorschulalter bereithalten. Dabei wird mit Nachdruck die Bedeutung der Einbeziehung von Eltern durch die Children's Centres betont. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den unterschiedlichen Facetten von Elternarbeit sowie mit den Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Formen von Elternengagement auf Eltern, Kinder und den Sozialraum. Die Schlussfolgerung lautet, dass die größtmöglichen positiven Effekte dann entstehen, wenn Children's Centres Eltern nicht nur als Nutznießer von Dienstleistungen betrachten, sondern als Personen, die selbst etwas anzubieten haben und Entscheidungen in eigener Sache treffen können.