1. Susannah Chambers Project Manager, Peeple www.peeple.org.uk
family learning uniquely enabling health choices
Susannah Chambers Project Manager, Peeple
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2. good enough?

3. unique families

4. how Peeple’s LTP supports health outcomes
What about the Learning Together Programme?
through pregnancy and the early years
helping strengthen parent-child relationships
supporting parents with their children’s emotional, social, language, cognitive and physical development – in day-to-day life
How?
through local delivery in Oxfordshire with home visits; drop-ins (e.g. in child health clinics); with universal or targeted groups (e.g. antenatal; children with additional needs; speech and language; foster carers)
training practitioners
providing bespoke workshops and training
providing fabulous resources online, in a hard copy binder and also songbooks, CDs and story books!

5. learning together study
Funded by the Education Endowment Foundation
Evaluated by Queen’s University Belfast
Randomised Controlled Trial involving over 160 schools
Parents with 3-year-olds
Outcomes for children include measuring early literacy, language and communication skills and PSED (Personal, Social, Emotional Development)
Outcomes for parents include measuring the quality of the home learning environment, confidence and stress levels.

6. family learning models and health choices
European case studies and articles
Luxembourg government prioritise Family Learning
Excluded Groups – low skills/homeless/language barrier – impact on access to health information, which is heavily reliant on strong networks and a functional level of literacy.

7. family learning and healthy choices online
Digital Citizenship – including safety online -
E-safety/digital literacy
Families accessing Family Learning are increasingly required to access health information and systems online.
Health literacy (
“Forty-three per cent of the English adult working-age population cannot fully understand and use health information containing only text. When numerical information is included in health information, this proportion increases to 61%.” (p. 2)”

8. family learning models and health choices
Family Cookery
FLIF (access to services)
Big Lottery Fund ‘Fit For Life’
Paul Hamlyn Foundation ‘Family Numeracy’
Puppets - non-threatening ways of communicating intergenerationally as well as in large community groups (e.g. Tearfund)
Breakfast2Bed – Children In Care

9. family learning models and strategic fit
How does addressing health messages through Family Learning fit with strategic priorities/decision-making frameworks?
Consider local priorities/education context/health policy frameworks.
How is this stronger/weaker in a Family Learning context?

10. a win-win solution – intergenerational solutions
Power of music/musicking! (Christopher Small)

11. a win-win solution – intergenerational solutions

12. why family learning? Health communication/health messaging
Health literacy ( and linguistic literacy
Tailoring vs targeting
Effectiveness of different types of media
Implication is it’s worth promoting positive health messages, which Family Learning lends itself well to! (entertainment!): for example, sugar levy, salt intake

13. orim
What is ORIM? Opportunities, Recognition, Interaction and Modelling ORIM is the foundation of the Learning Together Programme. The change mechanism is ORIM. Links to health choices.
ORIM Network

14. health campaigning through family learning

15. Q&A thunderclap What is Thunderclap?
“It allows a single message to be mass-shared, flash mob-style, so it rises above the noise of your social networks. By boosting the signal at the same time, Thunderclap helps a single person create action and change like never before.”
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Let’s each be a thunderclap about Family Learning’s potential!
Thank you so much for participating!
Q&A

16. for more information during/post-conference
Susannah Chambers Project Manager, Peeple LinkedIn: Susannah Chambers