Patricia Slatcher looks at a popular project that shows parents how to use their own skills to help their child to learn
The Right Start early years education project in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, is now into its final year of a five-year 1m block-funding from the Single Regeneration Budget. Cautious but sound optimism surrounds its future when SRB funding finishes in March 2003, based mainly on its success to date and the niche it has carved for itself in early years education locally.
Its core strategy is based on educating parents on how their own skills can be focused to help their children learn in everyday home settings, with everyday things, in order to raise their attainment level by the time they start school.
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