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TY - CHAP
T1 - Safeguarding children’s wellbeing within educational settings
T2 - a critical review of inclusion strategies
AU - Warin, Jo
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Education policy is central to safeguarding children since school and related educational services such as pre-school education and extended schools, appear to provide a ready-made arena for engaging hard-to-reach children and their families. However, recent evaluations of Children’s Centres suggest that certain family categories ‘slip through the net’, for example those from smaller ethnic minority communities. This chapter will provide a critical overview of the potentials and limitations of Children’s Centres, with a focus on issues of inclusion and engagement. The discussion will draw on data from an evaluation of Early Excellence Centres (now Children’s Centres) to critically examine strategies for engaging a wider reach of families and for developing two-way communication between parents and education professionals, with the goal of sharing holistic knowledge about the child. This, it will be suggested, is vital for safeguarding children’s well-being including their ‘liking of school’, recently found to be a low point in the UK (UNICEF 2007). Constraints to the realisation of this goal are argued to lie in the current emphasis of educational policy on a narrowly defined academic performance.
AB - Education policy is central to safeguarding children since school and related educational services such as pre-school education and extended schools, appear to provide a ready-made arena for engaging hard-to-reach children and their families. However, recent evaluations of Children’s Centres suggest that certain family categories ‘slip through the net’, for example those from smaller ethnic minority communities. This chapter will provide a critical overview of the potentials and limitations of Children’s Centres, with a focus on issues of inclusion and engagement. The discussion will draw on data from an evaluation of Early Excellence Centres (now Children’s Centres) to critically examine strategies for engaging a wider reach of families and for developing two-way communication between parents and education professionals, with the goal of sharing holistic knowledge about the child. This, it will be suggested, is vital for safeguarding children’s well-being including their ‘liking of school’, recently found to be a low point in the UK (UNICEF 2007). Constraints to the realisation of this goal are argued to lie in the current emphasis of educational policy on a narrowly defined academic performance.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780470682326
BT - Critical perspectives on safeguarding children
A2 - Broadhurst, Karen
A2 - Grover, Chris
A2 - Jamieson, Janet
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
CY - Chichester
ER -