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Blending whanau/family development, parent support and early childhood education programmes.(extended family)(Report)

Abstract

Internationally, the combination of early childhood education and parent support and whanau/family development initiatives are recognised as having the potential to improve child outcomes and overall whanau/ family wellbeing. This paper considers the experience of a community organisation that has successfully blended these two service components. The paper highlights some of the benefits of this programme, which developed from a playgroup and a counselling service in the 1990s into a fully developed community centre and licensed early childhood centre in 2004. The paper also considers some of the challenges the current policy environment poses for services that ...

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