Sure Start: voices of the ‘hard‐to‐reach’

Coe, Christine; Gibson, Andrew; Spencer, Nick; Stuttaford, Maria

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00816.x

Cited by 39 publications

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“…Difficulty understanding information about available services, living complex or chaotic lifestyles and having low trust in professionals have also been cited as personal factors contributing to service resistance and under‐utilisation by some groups, resulting in the perverse circumstance that those with the greatest needs may avoid, refuse, fail to comply with or disengage from help on offer (Barlow et al. 2005; Coe et al., 2008).…”

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Overlooked and under‐served? Promoting service use and engagement among ‘hard‐to‐reach’ populations

Cortis

2011

Int J Soc Welfare

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Cortis N. Overlooked and under‐served? Promoting service use and engagement among ‘hard‐to‐reach’ populations Social service providers strive to meet the needs of those most marginalised from society and from service systems. Yet many people who might benefit from available help consistently miss out. Using qualitative data, this study developed a repertoire of actions that organisations and service personnel can employ to improve participation and outcomes for groups who may be eligible for and may benefit from services, but whom service providers find difficult to identify, reach and engage. Semi‐structured interviews with service managers and coordinators of child, family and youth services in Australia attest to the diversity and context specificity of those who are deemed to be ‘hard‐to‐reach’. The research data highlight ways to improve reach and engagement in a managerialist context by refining organisational action in four strategic domains: overcoming access barriers, building client relationships, utilising networks and partnerships, and ensuring staff capacity and sustainability.

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Overlooked and under‐served? Promoting service use and engagement among ‘hard‐to‐reach’ populations

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2011

Int J Soc Welfare

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“…Apparently programming in some areas was working better than in others, and this could have been due to varying degrees of integration of the professionals involved, or of the differing nature of the communities in which intervention was attempted (Barnes, 2007;Melhuish et al, 2007;Melhuish, Belsky, & Barnes, 2010;Raymond, 2009). In addition, some severely disadvantaged clients may have felt stigmatized by the proposed interventions, accounting for their low take up of services (Coe et al, 2008). Failure of Sure Start programmes to recognize, or intervene with severe maternal depression (especially likely for single, abused or deserted mothers) was another problem which could be associated with reduced impact (Raymond, 2009;Coe et al, 2008).…”

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“…In addition, some severely disadvantaged clients may have felt stigmatized by the proposed interventions, accounting for their low take up of services (Coe et al, 2008). Failure of Sure Start programmes to recognize, or intervene with severe maternal depression (especially likely for single, abused or deserted mothers) was another problem which could be associated with reduced impact (Raymond, 2009;Coe et al, 2008). Another identi-fied problem was that some Sure Start centres were failing to link effectively with black and other ethnic minorities (Craig, 2007).…”

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England’s <i>Sure Start</i> Pre-School Child Care Centres: Public Policy, Progress and Political Change

Sawyerr¹,

Bagley²

2017

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Specialist child care centres focusing on urban areas in which significant numbers lived in poverty were part of policies to reduce chronic poverty and disadvantage, and associated negative behaviours and achievements in children and young people. They were initiated by the New Labour government in the late 1990s, and evolved in various ways as Sure Start centres, and Early Childhood Care Centres. Methodologically sophisticated evaluation has shown that these interventions have been partially successful in various ways, particularly with regard to preschool children's behaviour and adjustment, and parent-child interactions. When early interventions were linked to health programmes, and to teacher-led initiatives, the programmes were most successful. Nevertheless, the programmes failed to reach some 5 percent of those identified as most in need, for whom profound and chronic poverty was the cause of parental problems, and dysfunctional parent-child interactions. When programmes for such families were reduced because of changes in the manner and amount of funding, outcomes for the very poor families and their children were significantly worse. The Sure Start programmes were, in the final analysis, underfunded and subject to political change and interference, and hardly dented the chronic disadvantages imposed by England's system of class division.

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“…For example, Coe et al (2008) reported that parents' mistrust (resulting from their lack of information about a UK government children's program) contributed to the parents not participating. The H2S literature indicates that nonresponse error is possible when lack of trust leads potential respondents to refuse to participate in the study.…”

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A review of quality issues associated with studying hard-to-survey populations

Lyberg¹,

Stange²,

Harkness³

et al. 2014

Hard-to-Survey Populations

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Some populations/groups are defined as hard to survey (H2S) in the research literature because of difficulty sampling the population, accessing the population, contacting members of the population, persuading them to participate, and interviewing group members (see Tourangeau, Chapter 1 in this volume). Reviewing the literature on populations referred to as "hard to survey" indicates the types of studies undertaken with these populations, the survey error challenges, and the methodological solutions used by researchers who study such populations. The H2S literature, however, does have limitations and research gaps exist.The problems that complicate obtaining high-quality data from H2S populations are diverse and often interrelated. This review uses a quality assurance and quality control framework to discuss the total survey error associated with H2S studies. The discussion is based on an extensive systematic review of the quantitative and qualitative literature related to H2S, as well as our own experiences surveying these populations. (For a discussion and definition of kinds of H2S populations and the characteristics that earn them the H2S label, see Chapter 1 in this volume.)We identify literature from various disciplines, relate these to the H2S challenges, and note which solutions are proposed or criticized. In the overview of challenges and practices, we also identify research gaps and general limitations that need to be addressed. Here, we consider types of error and survey process stages less frequently discussed or for which concrete data and solutions are sparse. We identify pertinent quality assurance/control steps to address such gaps and point to tools to remedy important measurement and documentation deficits. We hope that our systematic review can generate improved practices for surveying H2S populations.Our literature review on H2S populations entailed searching keywords related to the topic in academic search databases, including Academic Search Premier/EBSCO, JSTOR, and Five survey research and methodology students and three survey research and methodology professors and professionals undertook an appraisal process for this chapter. The students were

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Sure Start: voices of the ‘hard‐to‐reach’

Cited by 39 publications

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Overlooked and under‐served? Promoting service use and engagement among ‘hard‐to‐reach’ populations

Overlooked and under‐served? Promoting service use and engagement among ‘hard‐to‐reach’ populations

England’s <i>Sure Start</i> Pre-School Child Care Centres: Public Policy, Progress and Political Change

A review of quality issues associated with studying hard-to-survey populations

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