2017-12-29 /

Inventory and analysis of promising and evidence-based parent- and family focused support programs

What works in parenting support: promising and evidence-based programs and services in 10 European countries

This inventory focuses on promising and evidence-based parent- and family focused support services and programmes in ten European countries (Czech Republic, England, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Portugal). The inventory starts by describing the social context indicators on family support and educational inequalities in each country. Second, the inventory presents country profiles, describing child and family services, and how country policies deal with equality issues, monitoring of services, and language support. Third, the inventory presents an analysis of a selected group of evidence-based and promising family support services and programmes, highlighting existing challenges and the programmes’ potential to overcome them. Finally, the inventory concludes with recommendations for potentially effective interventions in services and programmes design, implementation and evaluation. Ensuring outreach and adapting programmes to the country-specific contextual needs were some of the key recommendations highlighted by the authors. Comprehensive high-quality formative and summative evaluation studies of programmes are needed, particularly in those countries with underdeveloped research in this area.

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