The role of schools in supporting vulnerable children and families.

Stone, Kelly

Abstract

Practitioners who participated in the SCCPN/MARS
research study reported on in What Can Research Do
For You?1 identified the role of schools in supporting
vulnerable children and families as a priority for a
research briefing.
A subsequent review of the existing literature
focused on theoretical models, frameworks and
evidence-based school programmes and policies
which support vulnerable children and families. Such
programmes include those which:
• entail families and children participating together
• include wider family support (although primarily
for children)
• have taken into account the parental views
on their child’s development as a result of
participating in the programme.
Schools often support vulnerable children and families
in ways which do not appear in the literature; it is
recognised that these supports are part of very
effective practice with children and families, even if
they are not part of ‘official’ evidence.

Citation

Stone, K. (2013). The role of schools in supporting vulnerable children and families. WithScotland, University of Stirling

• Report Type: Research Report
• Publication Date: 2013-10
• Deposit Date: May 29, 2015
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Vulnerable children; families; schools; support
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8420
• Publisher URL: http://withscotland.org/exchanging-withscotland-briefings