Birth to Three
Pilot Project Evaluation Report
The pilot project was funded by Inverness Childcare and Family Resource partnership to help promote awareness of the new national guidance ‘Birth to three: Supporting our Youngest Children’ (LTS, 2005) and begin to improve the quality of provision for children aged 0-3 years in daycare in Inverness. Six private day care centres were invited by Partnership officers to participate in the project and all were keen to be involved. Centres were initially approached in February 06 and the project was completed in July 06. (See table 1 for the dates of meetings and visits).
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Nursery
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Workshop
1
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Workshop
2
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Observation
1
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Observation
2
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Feedback
1
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Feedback
2
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1
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28/3/06
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25/5/06
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4/5/06
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2/6/06
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1/5/06
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12/6/06
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2
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30/3/06
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25/5/06
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6/5/06
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31/5/06
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1/5/06
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12/6/06
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3
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4/4/06
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9/5/06
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24/4/06
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9/5/06
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4/5/06
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8/6/06
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4
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18/4/06
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7/6/06
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28/4/06
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14/6/06
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4/7/06
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4/7/06
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5
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3/4/06
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23/5/06
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18/4/06
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7/6/06
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5/5/06
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26/6/06
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6
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21/3/06
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31/5/06
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24/4/06
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8/6/06
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5/5/06
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16/6/06
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Methodology and results
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Nursery
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Nos. attending
Workshop
1
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Nos. attending
Workshop
2
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Completed
Questionnaires
Workshop 1
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Q.1
Are you
familiar
with 0-3
guidance?
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Q.1a
Have you
read any
of it?
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Q. 1b
Has it changed
the way
you work?
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Q.2
Attended
Training in last year?
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1
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5
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3
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5
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Y5
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Y5
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N2
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N5
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2
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7
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4
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6
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Y6
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Y6
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Y4/ N2
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N6
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3
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12
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3
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6**
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Y6
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Y6
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Y4/ N2
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N6
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4
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8
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4
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6
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Y2/ N4
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Y2/ N4
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Y1/ N1
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N6
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5
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8
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9
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8
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Y8
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Y8
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Y3/ N5
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N8
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6
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11
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11
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11
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Y11
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Y10/N1
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Y5/ N6
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*N11
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Total
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51
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34
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42
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Y38 /N4
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Y37/N5
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Y17/N18
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N42
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Y = Yes N = No
* Although this nursery had completed some in-house training on 0-3.
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What do you hope to gain from taking part?
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Total staff
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Time to reflect on my practice
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31
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Learn about National guidance
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33
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Time for discussion with colleagues
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34
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Ways to improve my practice
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38
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New ways to stimulate the children
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1
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Hope to be sure that we are doing the right thing/ interpreting the document correctly
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2
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My ability to understand and implement this with internal training | | 
