We wish to perceive extra about how, when and why completely different households with younger youngsters have interaction with completely different providers. We’re notably all for understanding the journeys of households who’ve entry to the Flying Begin programme in Wales. This programme contains extra well being customer appointments, additional parenting and speech, language and communication assist, in addition to funded part-time childcare for kids aged two. We’re all for how households have interaction with completely different providers throughout the Flying Begin programme – and different native early-years providers – and in understanding what we are able to study concerning the distinction this makes to youngsters’s developmental outcomes. We’ve developed this mission in collaboration with the Cardiff Early Assist workforce and are working in partnership with completely different groups and providers throughout the native authority to plan and ship the mission.
Influence purpose
If we are able to perceive households’ journeys by means of Flying Begin providers – drawing on information in addition to households’ personal lived expertise – then we can determine key moments that can be utilized to extend engagement. If we knew extra about why some households do have interaction with providers and which providers take advantage of distinction, then we may extra successfully plan and design providers to optimise engagement with these households and to succeed in those that don’t presently have interaction.
Why are we doing this?
We all know that participating with native early-years providers could make an actual distinction to youngsters and households. However we all know much less concerning the journeys that completely different households make by means of completely different early-years providers and the way engagement with completely different providers at completely different occasions may have an effect on youngsters’s outcomes. Are there key moments when intervention and assist could make an actual distinction?
Are there occasions when some mother and father and carers are notably open to assist from providers – or when that feels much less helpful to them?
What facilitates engagement with assist and what creates boundaries for various households? By understanding extra about how, when and why mother and father and carers have interaction with completely different providers and assist, we hope to have the ability to determine methods of each growing engagement and designing providers to extend impression for households with younger youngsters.
What are we doing?
It is a quick mission by means of which we intention to higher perceive alternatives for innovation and collaboration with the Cardiff early-years groups. We’re taking two distinct however complementary approaches to assist us determine methods of higher understanding household journeys by means of early-years providers. This method attracts on Nesta’s experience in each information analytics and lived expertise analysis.
Exploring early years information
This can concentrate on a collaborative information audit with key workers who use information to assist early-years work in Cardiff. We’ll additionally look particularly at two key datasets linked to the Parenting and Flying Begin providers to see if we are able to determine helpful analysis questions that may assist us higher perceive households’ journeys by means of providers.
Analysis with households
