Effective Parenting Programmes
Family Friends – parenting skills programme for parents, positive behaviour strategies, health and wellbeing, stress management and drugs prevention; provides link between parent and school.
www.lifeeducation.org.uk
Fun and Families - The Centre for Fun & Families is a voluntary organisation that has pioneered and developed a range of group work programmes to help parents who are having behaviour difficulties with their children or young people.
www.funandfamilies.co.uk
Family Caring Trust - A programme for parents of children aged 0 – 6 which focuses on behaviour, discipline and stimulating children’s development and learning.
www.familycaring.co.uk
Mellow Parenting and its infant version
Mellow Baby - These are programmes developed for high risk and abusing families whose relationships with their young children are under severe stress and which aim to promote sensitive parenting. Both children and parents attend the programme for up to a day at a time, children spending some time in a crèche and some time with parents. Early evidence difference to families (Puckering, 1994).
Enables parents to find their own solutions to family management problems through mutual support with a minimum of “expert” guidance from professionals
www.acamh.org.uk
Nurturing Programme - Covers positive discipline and strategies for managing problem behaviour, but with a focus on boosting parents and children’s self esteem, and improving parent child relationships by increasing parental empathy and communication skills (Hunt, 2004). Preliminary evidence shows that parents valued this programme highly (Barlow and Stewart-Brown, 2005).
www.familylinks.org.uk
Parents as First Teachers - Supports parents of children under five. Increases knowledge of their children’s development and potential, enables them to gain confidence in their role as parents, builds better family relationships and sets foundations for improved behaviour and community involvement.
www.paft.org.uk
PIPPIN - (Parents in Partnership Parent Infant Programme) for parents having their first child, based on attachment theory. PIPPIN is an example of a parenting programme that begins antenatally and aims to promote healthy early mother-infant relationships. It provides a total of 35 hours of support through a series of weekly two-hour group-based sessions that are facilitated by two parent-infant group leaders (usually midwives and health visitors) and is often delivered as part of antenatal and postnatal classes within the NHS (Parr,1997).
www.pippin.org.uk
Share – a family learning programme that is offered to pre-school, nursery, infant/primary and secondary schools using a practical hands-on approach to involving parents in their children’s education.
www.continyou.org.uk/share
Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities - Based on a strengths-based facilitative model, aiming to help families develop strong ethnic and cultural roots, positive parent-child relationships, life skills, self-esteem, self discipline and social competence and an ability to access community resources.
www.reu.org.uk
Strengthening Families - 7 week programme with booster sessions designed to reduce environmental risk and enhance protective factors by helping parents develop their parenting skills.
www.parenting-forum.org.uk
Triple P - Focused on children’s behaviour, with a strong emphasis on developing positive attitudes, skills and behaviour that help prevent problems arising and fosters family relationships
www.triplep.net
Webster Stratton Incredible Years
Aims to identify, intervene with and support families of young children with conduct problems or at risk of developing conduct problems, to improve their long-term prognosis.
www.incredibleyears.com
Early Learning Programmes
PEEP Learning Together Programme – Supports parents and carers as their children’s first and most important educators, providing a combination of different activities to support children’s learning in every day situations. The aim of PEEP is to promote learning and cognitive development during the first few years of a child’s life. PEEP provide a home visit to all families with new babies living in deprived areas, and parents are invited to attend weekly group sessions where they are offered mutual support and group-based interactive activities with infants including sharing a book every day, songs and rhymes, listening games, playing with shapes, and belonging to the library. PEEP also link up with families who are not able to attend groups, and provide resources for use at home.
www.peep.org.uk
Toolkits
Involving Parents, Raising Achievement - Toolkit (quote ref PICE/IPRA) and training pack (quote ref PICE/IPRA/TP)
Engaging fathers (quote ref DfES/0314/2004)
Available from DfES Publications
Tel: 0845 60 222 60
Fax: 0845 60 333 60
Text phone 0845 60 555 60
Email:dfes@prolog.uk.com
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/familyandcommunity/workingwithparents
Parent Participation: Improving services for children and families. The toolkit has been
developed by the Family Policy Alliance, which brings together three national charities:
Family Rights Group, Family Welfare Association and Parentline Plus. The toolkit
sets out a 12-step programme detailing the principles and practicalities of involving
parents. It can be ordered from Parentline Plus publications
www.parentlineplus.org.uk
Engaging with fathers
www.workingwithmen.org
A national charity that supports the development and needs of boys and men through project work, research, training and consultancy
www.fathersdirect.com
Information, news and advice for fathers. Training, consultancy
and resources, and information on the Fatherhood Quality Mark.
www.ymca.org.uk/parenting
Gives details of engaging with fathers in extended services
through the national YMCA dads&lads project
National organisations with expertise in supporting parents
www.nfpi.org
The National Family and Parenting Institute is a charity working to support parents in bringing up their children, to promote the wellbeing of families and to make society more family friendly
www.parenting-forum.org.uk
Parenting UK is the national umbrella body for people who work with parents. It developed the National Occupational Standards for Work with Parents.
www.continyou.org.uk
A charity which offers a wide range of education and support for schools, families and communities, including the Active Dads and It's a Man Thing programmes
www.parenting.org.uk
Positive Parenting is a charity which offers parenting training and Support
www.relate.org.uk
Relate is a charity which offers relationship support, including parent-child relationships.
www.barnardos.org.uk
Barnardo's is a children’s charity which offers relationship support, including parent-child relationships
www.coram.org.uk
Coram Family is a children’s charity that aims to develop and promote best practice in the care of vulnerable children and their families.
www.tsa.uk.com
The Trust for the Study of Adolescence is committed to improving the lives of young people and families.
www.parentalk.co.uk
Parentalk is a national parenting charity
www.oneplusone.org.uk
One Plus One works to strengthen couple and family relationships.
www.nch.org.uk
NCH works to help children achieve their full potential. Its services support
some of the UK’s most vulnerable and excluded children, young people and families.
www.schoolhomesupport.org.uk
School- Home Support is a charity which provides practical and emotional help for disadvantaged children, young people and families through its field staff of School-Home Support workers.
Effective Parenting Programmes
www.parentcentre.gov.uk
The Parent Centre is a website for all parents and carers who want to help their child or children to learn, with information and advice about children’s learning and the English education system
www.direct.gov.uk
A website giving a wide range of government information and services including regarding education, health and home and community
www.parentlineplus.org.uk
A website offering support to anyone parenting a child. It includes an e mail support service, and downloadable information materials for parents.
The Parentline Plus helpline is available free of charge 24 hours a day, on 0808 800 2222
www.homestart.org.uk
Home-Start UK – offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with children under 5 who are experiencing difficulties. A free helpline is available on 08000 68 63 68
www.talktofrank.com – an interactive website giving confidential advice and support to drug users and their families – a free helpline is available on 0800 77 66 00
www.ace-ed.org.uk
The Advisory Centre for Education is a charity offering information about state education in England and Wales for parents of school age children
Free general advice line is available on 0808 800 5793 (Monday to Friday 2-5pm)
Free exclusions information line is available 020 7704 9822
www.parentpartnership.org.uk
Parent partnership services provide information, advice and support to parents of children and young people with special educational needs. They can also offer schools support and training in working with parents.
