Section 3: Home/School partnership settings. In ‘Engaging parents and families: a toolkit for practitioners’

This toolkit has been developed to provide practitioners in all settings, including community learning and development (CLD) teams, family support staff, home/school link workers and additional support for learning staff with a practical resource to help support partnerships with parents and families in all aspects of their children’s learning. Practitioners can use the toolkit to help them achieve and sustain high levels of parental involvement and meaningful engagement within their learning settings.
Full toolkit contains sections on: Involving all parents; Learning at home; Parental representation; Family learning and community connections; School improvement planning; Reporting to parents and children; plus appendices on other research and website links.