Children's minister Beverley Hughes launched the report of a study by Oxford University on the DCSF-funded Early Learning Partnership Project (ELPP) yesterday at the annual conference of the Family and Parenting Institute (FPI). The FPI ran the ELPP with the aim of creating family-based educational support through voluntary sector agencies. Ms Hughes told the conference,'We're not generally dealing with "negligent" or "bad' parenting". She said parents needed 'practical ideas, advice and confidence to do the right...