Effective interventions in residential areas to improve children’s wellbeing and parent’s competences

The Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI) has collected international studies showing positive effects of interventions to improve children’s wellbeing and parents’ competences in marginalised residential areas.
The objective of the report is to contribute inspiration for social-housing work in Denmark and to bring greater focus on evidence-based and targeted work.

The systematic review describes interventions within three categories:
- Group interventions for parents and/or children
- Interventions with individual help for individual families
- Coordinated interventions without pre-defined activities

The report includes researchers’ reflections on how the interventions can be realised in a Danish context.

This is the last of a total of four reviews about international social-housing interventions which: 1) prevent crime, 2) improve schooling and education for children and readiness for the labour market for adults, and 3) improve children’s wellbeing and parenting competences. The reports are part of the overall assessment of the use of 2011-14 funding allocated by Landsbyggefonden (the national social housing fund) to marginalised housing areas.