Evaluation Headlines

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Parents As Firts Teachers has recently been upgraded by the Early Intervention Foundation to an Evidence Rating of 3+. Their assessment states that -

“According to the best available evidence for this programme’s impact, it can achieve the following positive outcomes for children:

  • Preventing child maltreatment

  • Enhancing school achievement & employment

  • Preventing crime, violence and antisocial behaviour

  • Preventing obesity and promoting healthy physical development.”

The Early Intervention Foundation is an independent charity that champions the use of effective early intervention to improve the lives of children, young people and their families, reduce hardship and improve value for money in the long run. The website is https://www.eif.org.uk/

The EIF Guidebook provides information about early intervention programmes that have been evaluated and shown to improve outcomes for children and young people. Through a rigorous assessment process, EIF has rated the strength of evidence for a programme’s impact and its relative costs. The Guidebook also provides a wealth of information about the specific outcomes a programme has been shown to improve, how the programme works, how it is delivered, and the conditions or resources that can make a programme more likely to be effective.

“PAFT promotes mothers and fathers change at a strongly significant level in four domains: knowledge, confidence, ability and action.”
— DR CORINNE HUNTINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF SURREY - SUMMER 2017

NATIONAL ACADEMY FOR PARENTING RESEARCH

Concluded that Parents as First Teachers is ideally suited for delivery through Sure Start Children’s Centres as part of their package of home-visiting support for at-risk families.

  • The team was particularly impressed by the programme’s strengths-based focus, which emphasised the importance of developing warm and enjoyable parent-child interactions and relationship.

  • The team were impressed with the detailed programme content and the systematic delivery programme.

  • The parent-child activities are an excellent way to demonstrate important techniques and encourage appropriate parent-child interaction.

  • Books and reading are central to the programme.

(January 2012)

THE GRAHAM ALLEN REPORT ON EARLY INTERVENTION

This report identified Parents as first Teachers as one of the evidence-based programmes which can reliably improve the lives of children and families. (January 2011)