Scotland : ‘enjoying’ the rural life in the Highlands of Scotland
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Abstract:
This article shares the perceptions of an academic and researcher, who is concerned to ensure that adequate and appropriate services are
available to poor rural children and their families. It sets out the realities of the rural world of Highland Scotland, highlighting the challenges that young children and their families face and focusing especially on the particular ways in which rural poverty impacts on everyday life. The project that he goes on to discuss, includes training parent volunteers to work with vulnerable families and support them through home visits, listening, helping with transport, shopping, childcare, running group work activities and helping families to use other services. The project generally aims to counter both rural poverty itself, and its effects on young children, partly through alliances of service providers. This approach demands the whole-hearted support and collaboration of the service providers, a strategy that is linked to ‘Sure Start’, a Scottish national programme with which the project is associated. A key feature of Sure Start is its insistence on generating maximum effectiveness through inter-agency cooperation.
Authors:
Lee, P.
Country:
United Kingdom
Category:
Practice
End Page:
23
Serial number:
101
ISSN:
1387-9553
Journal:
Early Childhood Matters
Keywords:
poverty
,
rural development
,
children
,
education
Language:
eng
Organization:
Bernard van Leer Foundation
Year:
2003
Region:
Western Europe
Right:
© 2003 Bernard van Leer Foundation
Subject:
Education, Science and Technology
Start Page:
20
Title:
Scotland : ‘enjoying’ the rural life in the Highlands of Scotland