Good practice

Parenting across Scotland gathers together examples of good practice in working with parents and families. We then share this information with practitioners to help improve services for parents and families.

We do this through:

• Our e-newsletter for practitioners
• Sharing information among our partners
• Running seminars and conferences, like Parents as Partners

Parents as Partners conference

Our October 2008 conference for parenting practitioners looked at how services can ensure that parents get help early and prevent problems turning into crises.

Below are speaker and workshop presentations to download. Unfortunately we do not have downloads for all the presentations and workshops that took place.

Speakers

• Introduction to conference and the work of Parenting across Scotland (68kB Powerpoint)
  Maggie Mellon, Parenting across Scotland
• Health visiting - a universal service for the future (908kB Powerpoint)
  Phil Wilson, University of Glasgow
• 'Hard to reach' families (644kB Powerpoint)
  Helen Barrett, Family and Parenting Institute

Workshops

• Developing a local parenting strategy (200kB Powerpoint)
  Joanne Wright, Dumfries and Galloway Council
• Parental involvement in children's learning (164kB Powerpoint)
  Karen Buist and Mhairi McNeil, Scottish Network for Parental Involvement in Children's Learning
• Involving Parents through health visiting services (100kB Powerpoint)
  Rhona Hogg, NHS Lothian
• Teenage parents as peer educators (32kB Word)
  Marion Laird and Kirsty O'Donnell, Scottish Marriage Care
• Engaging with homeless families (28kB Word)
  Alison Wren and Roz Plant, Shelter Scotland
• Reaching parents with parenting programmes (32kB Word)
  John Rogers, West Lothian Council
• Fraserburgh Families Project: supporting families affected by substance misuse (468kB Powerpoint) Adele Penfold, CHILDREN 1^st