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Nadeem, Sanober; Rafique, Ghazala; Khowaja, Liaquat; Yameen, Anjum – Child Care in Practice, 2014
Family environment plays a very important role in early child development and the availability of stimulating material in the early years of a child's life is crucial for optimising development. The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory is one of the most widely used measures to assess the quality and quantity of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Child Development, Early Experience
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Fanning, Bryan; Veale, Angela – Child Care in Practice, 2004
This paper evaluates responses to asylum seeker children in Ireland from a child poverty perspective and from that of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It draws upon research undertaken in early 2001 on behalf of the Irish Refugee Council among asylum seeker families with children in Cork, Limerick and Ennis on their…
Descriptors: Poverty, Income, Childrens Rights, Foreign Countries
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Brown, Eleanor A.; Dillenburger, Karola – Child Care in Practice, 2004
Sure Start is a Government project that aims to prevent social exclusion by targeting children between 0 and 4 years of age living in areas of social and economic deprivation. This study examined whether a Tier 2 Behaviour Support Service within a local Sure Start project was able to bring about improvements in children's behaviour and the levels…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Isolation, Psychotherapy, Behavior Problems