Parenting

Parenting

We are committed to supporting all parents who would like help, whatever their circumstances. The strategy sets out what we will do to develop services to support parents between 2008-11.

Parenting Support Strategy (pdf)

Parenting skills training - Triple-P

As a key part of our strategy, Children's Services and its partners in health, the voluntary sector and schools are training more people to deliver parenting skills training.

In H&F the usual model that we use is called the Positive Parenting Programme, also known as Triple-P, but other kinds of support are available in different settings.

Every parent knows that the hardest job anyone can do is to bring up children. It doesn’t matter whether you are a single parent or a couple, you have plenty of family support or none, we all struggle at times to know how best to raise children to be happy, confident and respectful young people.

Parenting skills training is a brilliant way to give you the confidence to be a better parent and can help almost anyone.

Triple P Positive Parenting Programme courses in September 2010

The Parenting Services coordinator

The Urban Partnership Group and H&F Children’s Services are working together to provide a parenting coordinator service for all parents who are interested in learning about parenting skills training.

Throughout H&F there are trained people who want to support you and we are training more people in all kinds of settings. The parenting coordinator can help you to find the right kind of support and point you in the direction of where to get advice. 

For more details please contact the parenting coordinator on 020 7605 0800 or parents@upg.org.uk

The following links aim to bring together all the information on our website that you might be most interested in if you are a parent. 

• Schools   
• Family Information Service  
• Early Years   
• Childcare   
• Childcare sufficiency assessment  
• Disabled children 
• Family Assist 
• Fostering and adoption and looked after children  
• Private fostering - looking after someone else's child     
• Children's Centre Family Support Team        

School support and welfare

• Help with money  
• Psychology in education services  
• School meals  
• Term dates       
• Support for excluded pupils   
• Minority ethnic and bilingual pupils  
• Becoming a governor

Useful publications

Safe Parenting Directory 2006 (pdf) - Where to find information about parenting and common problems (for parents of children aged 0-18 years)

About Parent Know How 

The Parent Know How programme is a government funded national that aims to deliver better outcomes for children and parents by ensuring parents have access to the information, advice and guidance they need to support them in their parenting.

The Parent Know How programme supports those in parenting roles - mothers, fathers, carers and other adults with parental responsibility - in a range of ways, including telephone helplines, new communications platforms, like text messaging, instant messaging, social networking tools, and improved internet use and printed content that reaches parents who would prefer not to use telephone helplines or internet technologies.

Parent Know How directory (pdf)