Background ‘Parents and Carers’

Under the section ‘Stay Safe’ in ‘Every Child Matters’ there is a clear statement that ‘parents, carers, and families provide safe homes and stability’. At ‘Parents and Carers’ it declares, ‘Parents, carers and families are the most important influence on children and young people's outcomes. The Change for Children programme aims to ensure that support for parents becomes routine, particularly at key points in a child or young person's life. All schools actively seek to engage parents in children and young people's education helping parents to understand what they can do at home to work with the school. talk2me provides a bridge whereby schools which ‘actively seek to engage parents in children and young people's education’ can encourage parents who may have been unwilling hitherto to participate, and those who have, to do so more fully and effectively.