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TitelScotland : ‘enjoying’ the rural life in the Highlands of Scotland  
AuteurP. Lee
Jaar2003
TijdschriftEarly Childhood Matters
Serienummer101
Pagina's20-23
ISSN1387-9553
OrganisatieBernard van Leer Foundation
OnderwerpEducation, Science and Technology
Trefwoordenpoverty, rural development, children, education
RegioWestern Europe
LandUnited Kingdom
SamenvattingThis article shares the perceptions of an academic and researcher, who is concerned to ensure that adequate and appropriate services are
available to poor rural children and their families. It sets out the realities of the rural world of Highland Scotland, highlighting the challenges that young children and their families face and focusing especially on the particular ways in which rural poverty impacts on everyday life. The project that he goes on to discuss, includes training parent volunteers to work with vulnerable families and support them through home visits, listening, helping with transport, shopping, childcare, running group work activities and helping families to use other services. The project generally aims to counter both rural poverty itself, and its effects on young children, partly through alliances of service providers. This approach demands the whole-hearted support and collaboration of the service providers, a strategy that is linked to ‘Sure Start’, a Scottish national programme with which the project is associated. A key feature of Sure Start is its insistence on generating maximum effectiveness through inter-agency cooperation.
TaalEngels
CategoriePractice
Soort documentArtikel
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