For immediate release: Wednesday 2 May 2007
PEAL project granted
additional funds
The Parents, Early Years and Learning project (PEAL) has been
granted additional funds to deliver training to practitioners that
will encourage parents to get more involved with children under
three’s early learning and development.
The funding comes from the Workforce Development strand of the
Department for Education and Skills Early Learning Partnerships
programme, and will enable PEAL to begin a second phase of training
to practitioners from children’s centres and other early
years settings between June 2007 and March 2008.
Sue Owen, Director of the Early Childhood Unit based at NCB,
said: ‘Parents are a child’s first, and most enduring, educators
and by supporting the parental contribution to children’s learning
we can make a real difference to children’s educational and social
outcomes. How children feel about themselves, how they view the
world, how well they relate to others, how well they do at school
and how well adjusted they are, can all be linked to the quality of
the relationship with their parents, particularly in the early
years of life’.
PEAL is led by the National Children’s Bureau, Coram Family and
the London Borough of Camden, and delivers training to
practitioners to encourage parental involvement with children’s
early learning and development.
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Notes for editors:
For more information about the project please visit
http://www.peal.org.uk/
1. The first three training events for children’s centre
practitioners, will take place on June 7 in Southampton, June 19 in
Brighton and July 4 in London. For a booking form e-mail:
pealinfo@ncb.org.uk or
telephone 020 7843 6100.
2. NCB promotes the voices, interests and well-being of all
children and young people across every aspect of their lives.
As an umbrella body for the children’s sector in England and
Northern Ireland, we provide essential information on policy,
research and best practice for our members and other partners. For
further information visit http://www.ncb.org.uk/
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