| Practice area: | Economics of Education | Education and Labour Markets |
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| Client: | Department for Education |
| Published: | 23 July, 2014 |
| Keywords: | modelling quantitative analysis |
The CANparent trial was a government initiative to examine the development of a universal offer of parenting classes potentially to all parents of children aged 0-5 years. The aim of the trial was to evaluate whether the free provision of parenting classes would provide sufficient incentive to providers to start offering additional parenting classes nationally (including for parents beyond the foundation stage), and whether a universal approach could normalise and de-stigmatise parenting classes. London Economics were commissioned by the Department for Education (along with the University of Warwick, TNS BMRB and BPSR) to undertake a cost effectiveness and willingness to pay analysis of the CANparent trial. The full report can be found here, with the Executive Summary of the main findings here.