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All Parent Educators provide parent education, advocacy, and support to parents. In addition, we focus on prevention of family violence, prevention and intervention for substance abuse, SIDS risk reduction, child nutrition, immunizations, child safety, developmental screening, and case management. All home visitors in the Maternal Child Health Home Visiting programs are supervised by an experienced public health nurse with a Masters in Public Health and Infant Toddler Maternal Health Graduate Certificate, who also serves a limited caseload. All parent educators (nurses and public health associates) are certified in and use the Parents As Teachers curriculum, and are. | KING S College LONDON action for children Children s Centres in 2011 Improving outcomes for the children who use Action for Children Children s Centres James Blewett Jane Tunstill Shereen Hussein Jill Manthorpe and Sarah Cowley June 2011 Contents Page 1 Executive summary 3 2 Introduction 14 3 The structure of this report 17 4 The research knowledge context for 18 understanding Centre-based services for children and their families 5 The current policy context 28 6 The design of the present study 39 7 Study findings Understanding the nature of service 44 design and delivery understanding the inputs Why these six indicators of Centre quality 52 and practice at the input level were identified as being most likely to have a positive impact on outcomes for children Understanding Centre outputs 67 Outcomes for children 72 8 Implications of the study data for 84 commissioners and service providers 9 Conclusion 91 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. Introduction Action for Children commissioned a research team at King s College London to evaluate the impact of Action for Children Children s Centres on outcomes for vulnerable children. The study took place during 2010-11. Within the wider context of early intervention to meet wider family support needs the study also addressed key topics including health inter-agency collaboration access to services and the role of outreach. The study period coincided with robust public and political debate around the allocation of public spending alongside an extensive review of services and outcomes for children and young people through five parallel reviews. 1 Proposed developments in the configuration of community health services for children and their families put a spotlight on the existing and potential contribution of Children s Centres to undertake the co-ordination of services as well as have a positive impact on child outcomes alongside supporting workforce recruitment and retention and the enhancement of inter-agency collaboration. 2. .