Looking for data on how parents are helped in europe

August 13, 2009 1:54 PM

Looking for statistics and/or reports about services given by NGOs, private companies and governments to parents, as opposed to services directed to childrens, in european countries.

I am already searching within Eurostat and ChildOnEurope but so far I didn't have much luck. I am particularly interested into statistics kindergartes/ other pre-obligatory schools, baby sitting and parent counseling.

The data doesn't have to be commented as in a report and it can be raw, as long as it can be imported into excel or some spreadsheet program. Reports are also appreciated, as well as websites directing to collections of such resources. English language preferred, but I can deal with any language google translation can handle.

This is part of a research program on how helped are the parents in europe, quantitatively and qualitatively.

posted by elpapacito to Society & Culture (2 answers total)

You can try Eurybase for education related data, OECD Directorate for Education reports and you might want to google follow ups on the Barcelona 2002 targets. And chapter 2 of this EU report.
posted by lucia__is__dada at 2:33 PM on August 13, 2009

UK only, but the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has a helluva lot of social policy research. Indeed, if you want up to date they published a report on 'Assessments of parenting and parenting support need' yesterday!
posted by Coobeastie at 4:03 PM on August 13, 2009