... working with children and parents in school settings. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Chinese Programme evaluation Brief intervention Parent education Triple P Parenting RCT The importance of parent training has been well recognised in early childhood education...

... moving to action to protect children, rather than on a naive view of children protecting themselves. The authors contested that intervention should have focused on wider social networks and not just on the children. The difficulty in conducting meaningful programme evaluation has been highlighted...

... on these issues might find it helpful to start with the books discussed in the review article by Hobbs and colleagues in this special edition (p40). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Random assignment Matched comparison Pre‐post studies Programme evaluation Random assignment in programme...