Working with parents and carers

Communicating well with parents and carers allows us to establish a meaningful relationship with those at home and to work together with them, with the child’s best interests at the heart of what we do.

This learning workout will explore some of the ways we can create a more inclusive environment for children who are care-experienced and how we can best support them from a young age.

Explore the importance of supporting positive parenting in the early years

The experiences of service children are very individual due to the specific nature of their involvement in the service. Service children are more likely to face barriers to accessing education throughout their first 25 years of life.

Let’s take a look at what we mean by an unconscious bias and some of the ways this might be exhibited.

The child’s best interests are at the forefront of this relationship, but what does this mean in practice?  

Having an insight into the parents’ and carers’ experiences is enormously helpful for thinking about how best to support parent and carer partnerships initially to create foundations for a long-lasting relationship with families as their children grow through setting. This learning workout reflects instead on the experiences of the parents and carers who are also adjusting to the start of their child’s journey in early education and care.

Formative assessment is a powerful tool in early education and care, providing professionals and families with fascinating insights into a child’s learning and development.

This learning workout will explore how we develop these meaningful conversations with parents and carers and what this means for wider practice.

Early education and care provisions provide a unique space to develop language proficiency and all professionals should be equipped to support children for whom English is not their native language.