What we do
Putting our approach into practice to support early years development
We bring local communities, parents and carers together, in the places where families face some of the biggest challenges, to support every child and build a national model that can benefit children in every community. Here’s how we do it.
Unlocking the power of parents and carers
Strengthening the network of community organisations around children and families
Being guided by evidence and data
Achieving a good level of development by age five
Focusing on five steps towards a good level of development at age five
Building a systematic approach
Through our pathfinder areas, we are testing, learning, creating and refining a best practice approach to build into a framework of how a community can support positive child development.
There are three phases to our approach;
Discover:
mapping existing support services and assets, along with the views of all those in the community including parents and carers, and those working in the early years system.
Co-design and implement:
working together with parents, carers and the early years system to put ideas, evidence and learnings from the Discovery phase into practice.
Improve and embed:
monitoring, measuring and refining our approach, and building a national model to support children, parents and carers across the UK.
Creating a playbook for every community
We are working with the Isos Partnership to consolidate what we are learning into a practical and continually updated playbook that can be used across the UK to help young children and families thrive in their communities. Our emerging playbook sets out how to replicate the approach with different communities, including how to adapt the elements of the approach to local needs and context.
Sustaining community-level change
It takes time to make a real and lasting difference with the communities and families that face the most difficulties. We commit to seven years of support through our local teams and embed change that can be sustained, through trusted partnerships with parents, carers and local organisations.
Where we work
Our supporters & partners
Thrive at Five is having a positive impact on the life and learning of under-fives with the generous investment of funding and resources from our national and local supporters, and the skills, expertise, and partnership of our collaborators.
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