Lessons from the pilot deliveries

What lessons were learned from these pilot deliveries?

• that it was more difficult to integrate childminders into the existing PEAL training or rather that the existing PEAL training needed to be adapted for home based carers. Practitioners more from the training if their own setting was represented in the materials
• ir was found to be more beneficial in mixing participants together but it was more demanding on the trainer to make sure they were being inclusive of different situations in their use of language.
• the core PEAL principles applied to all types of settings and the core message about building relationships between parents, children and practitioners was relevant for all practitioners.

Development of Materials

Piloting PEAL with a wider range of practitioners as part of ELP1 enabled the development of new materials.  New Practice Examples

New scenarios for the carousel activity (session 7: Communication and Confidence) were produced to reflect the realities of conversations between childminders, or between stay and play workers, and parents. New childminder situations  New toddler situations

Home visiting scenarios for the carousel activity were piloted on 28 March 2007 at Coram Family Parents Centre.  The feedback received from participants allowed the scenarios to be adapted again as a result, before being incorporated into the training materials for the roll-out in September that year.  New home visiting situations

It also became apparent that the preparatory booklet (Activities) could be adapted for childminders. Childminder activity booklet

Statements for Session 5 (what might stop us) were tested with the new audiences, and a new one added.