Title page
Contents
OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers 3
Acknowledgements 4
Abstract 6
Resume 7
Introduction 8
1. The role of family services in promoting child wellbeing 10
1.1. The importance of the family and home environment for child development and well-being 11
1.2. What difference can family services make? 15
1.3. What makes family service delivery effective? 17
1.4. What is needed to help countries better deliver and expand family services? 19
2. Expanding family services: policy issues 20
2.1. Key challenges at government level 20
2.2. Providing support at service delivery level 21
2.3. Addressing implementation issues 27
2.4. Challenges for professionals 30
2.5. Ensuring that service delivery fits within the local context 33
2.6. Engaging families in services 36
2.7. Developing and sharing knowledge on 'what works'? 40
3. Conclusion 45
References 46
Table 1. Factors identified as facilitating interagency collaboration 24
Table 2. Factors identified as inhibiting interagency collaboration 24
Table 3. Elements of implementation fidelity 28
Table 4. Barriers to participation in US home visiting programmes 37
Table 5. The Administration for Children & Families Common Framework for Research and Evaluation 42
Figure 1. Impact of contextual factors on child's literacy performance at age 5 in the United Kingdom 12
Figure 2. A basic model of a 'whole-systems approach to integration' 22
Figure 3. Steps in an effective commissioning cycle 29
Boxes
Box 1. The mechanisms underpinning inequalities in early child outcomes: theoretical accounts 13
Box 2. The UK's Family Nurse Partnership 16
Box 3. The United Kingdom Troubled Families Programme 26
Box 4. A Tool for Achieving Outcomes in a Complex World-The Getting to Outcomes Approach 30
Box 5. Building a community of skilled practitioners in Mexico 32
Box 6. Cultural adaptation of a parenting intervention 34
Box 7. A guide for making changes to evidence based interventions 35
Box 8. Context Matters: Transporting Nurse Family Partnership to different contexts 36
Box 9. Summary of ethical issues raised by predictive analytics for family services 40