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Parenting UK The national umbrella body for those who work with parents

Parenting UK The national umbrella body for those who work with parents. Supporting Parents in the UK Mary Crowley MBE. Parents discovered 1998!. Supporting Families - Home Office Parenting Orders: Youth Justice Board NFPI 1999; now FPI Our role to support, inform and regulate

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Parenting UK The national umbrella body for those who work with parents

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  1. Parenting UK The national umbrella body for those who work with parents Supporting Parents in the UK Mary Crowley MBE

  2. Parents discovered 1998! • Supporting Families - Home Office • Parenting Orders: Youth Justice Board • NFPI 1999; now FPI • Our role to support, inform and regulate • Standards and workforce www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  3. Government Initiatives • Parenting Fund £25m • Every Child Matters • Children’s Centres; Extended Schools • Parenting Orders extended • Extension of Transition Information Sessions in schools • Respect agenda”It’s the parenting, stupid!” Compulsory programmes www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  4. More Initiatives • Parent Support Advisers - 600 schools • Single Commissioner for Parenting Support; Government Offices role • Toolkit for Commissioners • Pathfinder £10m for projects; 20 areas • CWDC Children’s Workforce;Integrated Qualifications Framework www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  5. Health-led Initiatives • National Service Framework for Children Young People and Maternity Services • NICE “Parent training programmes are effective and cost-effective in the treatment of conduct disorder” • Intervention for very young parents to be trialled in 10 areas ; based on the David Olds Nurse-Family Partnership model developed and rigorously evaluated in the United States www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  6. The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners (NAPP) • NAPP: £10m per year for 5 years • Workforce and research role • Winning consortium: ParentingUK; FPI and Kings College, London • October launch • Mapping and training rollout www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  7. QCA and City and Guilds • Major roll-out of training in Northern Ireland, Wales and England • Generic training for work with parents • City and Guilds Centres and FE colleges • Adult learning and development model • University accreditation • Distance learning models; adult apprenticeships www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  8. Welsh Parenting Policy • Commitment to national policy based on National Occupational Standards • Extensive roll-out of Incredible Years • Promoted by Judy Hutchings • Children in Wales host Fforwm Magu Plant (Parenting Forum) linking policy; sharing research; voice for parents www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  9. Parenting in Europe in the 21st Century • Leonardo da Vinci workforce project • Transnational Network for information exchange • Partners in N.Ireland; Irish republic; Belgium; Netherlands; France; Sweden;Poland; Romania; Slovakia • www.europarent.org www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  10. “How we work with Parents is as important as what we do” David Quinton 2003 • National Occupational Standards • Describe how to work with parents and are recognised UK wide • Family Learning Standards developed alongside • Approved April 2005 www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  11. Why work with parents? • Cost to the public purse of a child with conduct disorder £70,000 • with no specific disorder £7,000 • (Dr Stephen Scott 2002) • Public health agenda www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  12. Research findings • Parental involvement in the form of "at-home good parenting" has a significant positive effect on children's achievement and adjustment even after all other factors shaping attainment have been taken out of the equation. In the primary age range the impact caused by different levels of parental involvement is much bigger than differences associated with variations in the quality of schools. The scale of the impact is evident across all social classes and all ethnic groups. • 2003 Prof Charles Desforges with Alberto Abouchaar The Impact of Parental Involvement, Parental Support and Family Education on Pupil Achievement and Adjustment: a Literature Review DfES Report 433 www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

  13. Emler: Joseph Rowntree 2002 • “The most important influence on a person’s level of self-esteem are their parents; after parents have had their say,little else in life is able to modify the opinion of self thus formed.” • “Good father-child relations are associated with an absence of emotional and behavioural difficulties in adolescence and greater academic motivation Erini Flouri & Ann Buchanan” www.parentinguk.org; www.europarent.org

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