Centre for Excellence and
Outcomes (C4EO) website
C4EO works to enable local
authorities and their partners to access good practice, build
capacity and achieve culture change. Its work is grouped
around a number of themes.
Families, Parents and Carers is the eighth theme C4EO will be
working on as part of its three-year work programme, and work will
start on this theme in December 2009. The lead organisation
on behalf of C4EO is the Family & Parenting Institute.
Children’s Workforce
Development Council (CWDC) website
CWDC aims to improve the lives of children,
young people, their families and carers by ensuring that those who
work with children and young people have the best possible
training, qualifications and support.
Department for Children, Schools and Families
(DCSF) website
Information about working with mothers, fathers, parents and
carers can be found at on this website.
Family and Parenting
Institute (FPI) website
The Family and Parenting Institute carries out
research and policy work around families and parents. It
develops ideas to improve the services families use and to improve
the environment in which children grow up. FPI works to
inform policymakers and public debate, as well as developing
practical resources for people working with families.
Joseph Rowntree
Foundation website
(JRF) funds a large, UK-wide research and development programme.
JRF has a Parenting Research and Development programme, and has
produced a range of publications relating to parenting including
the following recent reports:
This work encompasses seven reports reviewing existing research
on:
- Parenting and outcomes for children
- Parenting and resilience
- Fathers and fatherhood
- Parenting and ethnicity
- Children’s views of parenting
- Parenting and poverty
- Barriers to inclusion
National Academy for
Parenting Practitioners website
The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners (NAPP) exists
to train and support the practitioners that parents turn to for
advice, training and information around parenting skills so that
they can make sure their work is based on research evidence of what
really works. NAPP's work focuses on three main areas: research,
workforce development and knowledge exchange.
The
Fatherhood Institute website
The Fatherhood Institute works to ensure that the caring role of
fathers and father-figures is recognised and supported. Its aim is
for all health, education, family and children’s services to be
“father-inclusive” – that is, to support fathers in their caring
roles as seriously as they currently support mothers. A range
of publications are available through their website.
Parentlineplus
website
A national charity providing help and support
to anyone caring for children – parents, grandparents,
step-parents, relatives – for families living together as well as
apart. The help line offers free advice.
Social Care Institute of
Excellence website
The Social Care Institute for Excellence
(SCIE) was established by Government in 2001 to improve social care
services for adults and children in the United Kingdom. SCIE have
produced a range of reports about aspects of parenting and family
support including the following:
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