Working together. Policy and practice in Scottish early childhood centres
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Abstract
A key policy response to continuing concerns about levels of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom has been the promotion of integrated children's services, involving professionals from education, social work, health and other fields working together on an inter‐agency basis. This small‐scale qualitative research project, using an opportunity sample approach, examines interview data to explore how leaders in early childhood centres in West Scotland construct the meaning of integrated working, its perceived benefits and the associated challenges and facilitators for practice. It draws on the analysis of social capital to explain practice in terms of bonding, bridging and linking networks and the importance of trust and reciprocity. Early findings indicate that there is considerable consistency in views relating to establishing communities of trust and professional networks and some divergence of views relating to issues of civic trust. The study examines the policy implications of these findings. Les centres intégrés de la petite enfance, qui réunissent des professionnels de l'éducation, du travail social, de la santé et d'autres champs, constituent une réponse politique fondamentale pour réduire la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale au Royaume‐Uni. Les données de cette étude qualitative proviennent d'entretiens visant à comprendre la signification du travail intégré pour les responsables de services de la petite enfance en Ecosse de l'Ouest, les bénéfices qu'ils en perçoivent, les défis et les conditions favorables à la pratique. L'étude fait appel à une analyse du capital social (Coleman, 1988 Coleman, J. 1988. Social capital and the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology, 94: 95–120. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Putnam, 2000 Putnam, R. D. 2000. Bowling alone. The collapse and revival of American community, London, New York, Toronto and Sydney: Simon and Schuster. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Stone, 2001 Stone, W. 2001. Measuring social capital. Towards a theoretically informed measurement framework for researching social capital in family and community life, Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies. [Google Scholar]) pour expliquer la pratique en termes de réseaux et à l'importance de la confiance et de la réciprocité. Les premiers résultats indiquent la cohérence des points de vues relatifs à l'établissement de la confiance et de réseaux professionnnels, ainsi que quelques divergences lorsqu'il s'agit de confiance civique. L'étude considère les implications politiques de ces résultats. Eine Schlüsselmaßnahme, mit der fortgesetzter Sorge über das Ausmaß von Armut und sozialem Ausschluss im Vereinigten Königreich begegnet werden sollte, war die Förderung integrativer Kindertageseinrichtungen, in denen Fachkräfte aus Pädagogik, Sozialarbeit, dem Gesundheitswesen und anderen Gebieten zusammenarbeiten auf der Basis der Verknüpfung dieser Dienste. Unter Verwendung des Gelegenheitsstichproben‐Ansatzes werden in einem kleineren qualitativen Forschungsprojekt Interviewdaten daraufhin untersucht, wie Leitungen frühpädagogischer Einrichtungen in Westschottland die Bedeutung integrativen Arbeitens konstruieren, deren wahrgenommene Vorteile, Herausforderungen und Erleichterungen für die Praxis. Die Analyse des Sozialkapitals (Coleman,1988 Coleman, J. 1988. Social capital and the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology, 94: 95–120. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Putnam, 2000 Putnam, R. D. 2000. Bowling alone. The collapse and revival of American community, London, New York, Toronto and Sydney: Simon and Schuster. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Stone, 2001 Stone, W. 2001. Measuring social capital. Towards a theoretically informed measurement framework for researching social capital in family and community life, Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies. [Google Scholar]) wird herangezogen, um die Praxis zu erklären in Begriffen von Verbindungen schaffen, Brücken schlagen und Verknüpfungen herstellen von Netzwerken sowie der Bedeutung von Vertrauen und Gegenseitigkeit dabei. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen eine bemerkenswerte Konsistenz in den Ansichten bezüglich des Etablierens von Gemeinschaften von Vertrauen und professionellen Netzwerken und einige Divergenzen der Ansichten bezüglich Fragen von staatsbürgerlichem Vertrauen. Die Studie prüft die Implikationen dieser Ergebnisse für weitere Maßnahmen. Una respuesta política clave en la preocupación continua sobre los niveles de pobreza y exclusión social en el Reino Unido ha sido la promoción de los servicios integrados de los niños, los cuales implican profesionales de la educación, trabajadores sociales, de la salud y otros campos de trabajo comunes sobre una base de inter‐disciplinariedad. Este proyecto de investigación cualitativa a pequeña escala, usando la oportunidad de una aproximación a la muestra, examina los datos de las entrevistas para explorar cómo los directores de los centros de ecuación infantil en Escocia Occidental construyen el significado del trabajo integrado, los beneficios percibidos y los retos y facilitadores asociados para la práctica. Se utiliza el análisis del capital social (Coleman, 1988 Coleman, J. 1988. Social capital and the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology, 94: 95–120. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Putnam, 2000 Putnam, R. D. 2000. Bowling alone. The collapse and revival of American community, London, New York, Toronto and Sydney: Simon and Schuster. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Stone, 2001 Stone, W. 2001. Measuring social capital. Towards a theoretically informed measurement framework for researching social capital in family and community life, Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies. [Google Scholar]) para explicar la práctica en términos de adhesión, puente, y redes de relación y la importancia en la confianza y reciprocidad. Los resultados indican que hay una consistencia considerable en las perspectivas que relacionan para establecer comunidades de confianza y redes profesionales y alguna divergencia de los puntos de vista que en relación con las cuestiones de confianza cívica. El estudio examina las implicaciones políticas de estos resultados.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.018 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".