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    UNITES Project: Stakeholder Views and Experiences of Home Visiting in Ireland. Report Number Two


    McGilloway, Sinéad, Forde, Deirdre, McCormack, Patrice and Leckey, Yvonne (2024) UNITES Project: Stakeholder Views and Experiences of Home Visiting in Ireland. Report Number Two. Project Report. Government of Ireland, Ireland.

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    Abstract

    National policies such as Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures (2015), First 5 – A Whole of Government Strategy for Parents and Babies (2019) and Supporting Parents: A National Model of Parenting Support (2022), recognise the importance of, and reflect a strong and enduring commitment to, supporting early childhood development and wellbeing through the provision of accessible, high quality and evidence-led supports. For instance, a key goal of ‘First 5’ is to develop strong and supportive families and communities, including a commitment to the development of universal parenting supports (also reiterated in the National Model of Parenting Support Services) and, importantly, in the context of the current study, an evidence-led approach to home visiting services across a continuum of need (DCEDIY, 2022). Indeed, a wealth of both national and international evidence indicates that the home environment, and therefore services provided in the home, provide a crucially important context, and support, for healthy child development and wellbeing (e.g. Bradley & Corwyn, 2008). The UNITES project: Aims and Objectives The UNITES project was commissioned (in 2022) by the Department of Children Equality Disability Integration and Youth (DCEDIY). The project involved two separate, but related stages, the aims of which were: (1) to profile and critically review home visiting provision in Ireland; and (2) to elicit the insights, views and experiences of a wide range of stakeholders involved in managing, implementing, delivering or receiving home visiting programmes and services across the country. The ultimate goal of this work was to identify some proposed actions or ‘options’ that provide key stepping stones toward a more standardised and sustainable ‘model’ of home visiting service delivery in Ireland.
    Item Type: Monograph (Project Report)
    Keywords: UNITES Project; Stakeholder Views and Experiences; Home Visiting; Ireland;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Education
    Item ID: 19231
    Depositing User: Deirdre Forde
    Date Deposited: 29 Nov 2024 11:27
    Publisher: Government of Ireland
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19231
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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