PEEP children do benefit, says study

James Tweed
Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Young children whose parents are involved in their learning make 'significantly more progress' than those whose parents aren't, an evaluation report of the Oxfordshire PEEP project has found. The report, The Effects of the Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) on Children's Developmental Progress, by Dr Maria Evangelou and Professor Kathy Sylva of the Department of Educational Studies at Oxford University, looked at the initiative, which was set up in 1995 in three deprived estates in south-east Oxford, but is now expanding throughout Britain. They focused on whether the children whose parents participated in the PEEP programme made greater developmental progress than children whose parents have not participated in it.