Effekter af "Familiepladser og basispladser" : udvikling af mellemformer til udsatte børn i dagtilbud i Københavns Kommune 2007-2009.

The objective of this study is to investigate whether the development of intermediate types, Familiepladser (family places) and Basispladser (basic places), which are places at daycare centres that lie between the general area and the special-needs area, have a positive effect on socially vulnerable children.

The family place project has positive effects on well-being and learning of children, including helpfulness, solidarity, thoughtfulness, openness, linguistic abilities, learning readiness and curiosity. The basic place project, which is about more vulnerable children than those in the family place project, only has positive effects in relation to mathematical logic ability. The authors conclude that daycare-centre managers, in particular, and the fact that contents, structure and goals of the interventions are clear, play a vital role in the implementation as well as in the results.

The study is a prospective study with measurements before and after intervention with one year between.
In order to establish implementation processes by daycare centres, each daycare-centre manager is paid a visit and is interviewed qualitatively before interventions. After interventions, daycare-centre managers take part in structured focus group interviews with three-four respondents in each group.
In order to establish impacts of interventions, researchers conduct structured interviews with parents, hand out questionnaires (e.g. with questions that match those the parents were asked) to the social pedagogues about the children’s skills, and finally observe and
interview some of the children via TRAS-Early Registration of Language Development), which is a screening tool with 18 questions. All this takes place both before and after interventions.   

Jensen, B., Brandi, U., & Kragh, A. (2009). Effekter af "Familiepladser og basispladser" : udvikling af mellemformer til udsatte børn i dagtilbud i Københavns Kommune 2007-2009. København: Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsforlag.