Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP)
Key Facts
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Project Criteria
Project funding
£260,853
Funding round
Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) wants to improve children's educational attainment through work with their parents. We support parents on three Oxford housing estates as the first educators of their children. This is done through Home visits, a Home Programme and group work. We are a charity set up in 1994.
We are using the Parenting Fund to expand our capacity to do this work and will:
- Increase the number of practitioners trained to deliver the PEEP programme and extend the support available to them. This will be achieved by providing a National Trainer to undertake the training of new practitioners through the 'PEEP for Practitioners Course'.
- Strengthen work with parents/carers and children regionally by extending provision and making regions more self-sufficient. New networks will be created in three regions (North East - Newcastle, North West - Wirral, Midlands - Derby) to assist the integration and support of PEEP's work in the region. In each region a Local Accredited Trainer and Assessor will support local PEEP projects through training, advice, making visits to practitioners and groups, and referring them to other relevant local organisations and projects.
- Offer parents/carers the opportunity to achieve an OCN accreditation - A new Assistant Trainer will co-ordinate the OCN (Open College Network) accreditation for parents who attend PEEP groups throughout the country.
Support children's learning - Starter packs of PEEP materials will be provided for groups set up as a result of the extension of national training.