Professionals

Parenting Strategy Advisory Board

(Agenda - Minutes)

 

Purpose - To advise, monitor and participate in the implementation of the Parenting Strategy to support parents and carers in helping their children and young people to achieve the outcomes in the Children and Young People’s Plan, and to continue to do so until the group is satisfied that the strategy is embedded into the CYP Strategic partnership’s 5 theme groups.

 

Current priorities -Review progress against 2010/11 parenting action plan, review progress / action from subgroups, development of Parenting & Family Support Strategy beyond March 2010

User Involvement Subgroup

 

Purpose – To ensure we actively seek the views of parents and carers, and to involve them in the development of new services and the evaluation of existing ones, through creating a robust participation structure for parents’ views to be fed into strategic planning across the children and young people’s partnerships of the city

 

Current priorities – to review existing structures and make plans for a co-ordinated approach to parent and family involvement (review representation at Parenting Strategy Advisory Board, Joint Commissioning Board (CYP)), to ensure neighbourhood structures for parent and family involvement are reflected in strategy plans, to plan for the involvement of parents & families in the development and delivery of the strategy.

 

Group Workers Network Meeting

 

Purpose - Co-ordination and evaluation of evidence based parenting programmes in response to identify needs in Leicester

 

Current priorities – To map the different evidence based parenting programmes being delivered this term, to review the DMU evaluation toolkit and recommendations on use to maximise evidence of impact.  Identify what we know about the needs of  parents and families in Leicester and discuss what this means for future strategy and provision

 

Parenting Network Meeting

 

This group is for parents across the city to attend. It is an open group and we encourage service providers to send parents to this group. The group enables parents to have their say in service provisions. They are also sent a parenting network newsletter which aims to be written by parents for parents, to help them keep in touch with other parents and groups that are available.

Delivering SFSC parenting course

 

Organisations can be trained up to facilitate Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities Parenting Courses, and deliver them through their organisation.