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Originally published in 1981 to mark the twentieth anniversary of
the birth of the Pre-school Playgroups Association, Parents and
Playgroups brings together three wide-ranging reports which examine
the role of the playgroup movement, its underlying philosophy and
the contribution made by both playgroups and Mother and Toddler
groups to the lives of thousands of mothers and children throughout
Britain at the time. Formed following a letter to the Guardian in
1961, the PPA together with its sister organization the Scottish
PPA had a membership of approaching 16,000 playgroups, serving
nearly half a million children. Yet there had been very little
research into the workings of the movement until 1975, when
Barclays Bank funded a major research project which resulted in the
three reports Parental Involvement in Playgroups, Mother and
Toddler Groups and Patterns of Oversight published in this volume.
The many questions explored and debated include: How should the
playgroup movement develop in the 1980s and after? What do parents
contribute to playgroups - and what do playgroups and Mother and
Toddler groups offer in return? Should Social Service Departments
take over the running of playgroups and Mother and Toddler groups?
Do local authorities give playgroups enough support? Or does
statutory 'oversight' inhibit flexibility and imaginative
development? Are playgroups and Mother and Toddler groups too
middle-class oriented - and do they work equally well in different
kinds of neighbourhood? How do playgroups compare with nursery
schools? As Lady Plowden writes in her Foreword, 'the three studies
will serve as an introduction to the developed thinking of the
association, and point to further areas of research. They describe
something increasingly vital in our present society, which is so
often rootless and purposeless, as the group studying parental
involvement says "one of the greatest strengths of the playgroup
movement is that overall it is a positive force in a largely
negative society."' In the words of Max Patterson, President of the
Scottish PPA: 'This is a valuable set of studies... There is a
challenge in the material to those with power to effect change. The
experience and hard-earned knowledge of the Playgroups Association
raises important questions for all whose interest is family and
pre-school child.'
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