Comments on: Educate the Parents to Educate the Child http://www.childrenwebmag.com/articles/northampton/educate-the-parents-to-educate-the-child The internet's child care magazine published by a consortium led by The Centre for Children and Youth, University of Northampton,UK Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:06:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Nick Gulliford http://www.childrenwebmag.com/articles/northampton/educate-the-parents-to-educate-the-child#comment-136 Nick Gulliford Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:43:44 +0000 http://www.childrenwebmag.com/articles/northampton/educate-the-parents-to-educate-the-child#comment-136 You quote, "Social exclusion happens when people or places suffer from a series of problems such as unemployment, discrimination, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime, ill health and family breakdown. When such problems combine they can create a vicious cycle." This was the SEU. The NRU asked the ONS to publish statistics and indices of deprivation which it does for 7 of the 8 indicators by neighbourhood. The omission is family breakdown. You may know the answer to this, but I have not been able to find out why an index for domestic and social cohesion is not published. The Audit Commission report "Hearts and minds: commissioning from the voluntary sector" is quite correct in saying, "Local public bodies should “Improve how they measure value for money in public services, by shifting the current focus on inputs, outputs, and unit costs, towards long-term measurement of outcomes and effectiveness.” But until relevant social statistics and an index by neighbourhood is published for domestic and social cohesion, I don't see how "long-term measurement of outcomes and effectiveness" is going to be possible. You quote, “Social exclusion happens when people or places suffer from a series of problems such as unemployment, discrimination, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime, ill health and family breakdown. When such problems combine they can create a vicious cycle.”

This was the SEU. The NRU asked the ONS to publish statistics and indices of deprivation which it does for 7 of the 8 indicators by neighbourhood. The omission is family breakdown.

You may know the answer to this, but I have not been able to find out why an index for domestic and social cohesion is not published.

The Audit Commission report “Hearts and minds: commissioning from the voluntary sector” is quite correct in saying, “Local public bodies should “Improve how they measure value for money in public services, by shifting the current focus on inputs, outputs, and unit costs, towards long-term measurement of outcomes and effectiveness.”

But until relevant social statistics and an index by neighbourhood is published for domestic and social cohesion, I don’t see how “long-term measurement of outcomes and effectiveness” is going to be possible.

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