I am delighted that the team is now in place and we can regularly update you with news, up coming events and other useful information.
We hope you will let us know what your priorities are and how we can help.We want to hear from you and I am interested to hear your views and suggestions.
The reviewed Family Support and Parenting Strategy sets out how Children Leeds will work together with parents, to make sure that our family support and parenting services go further to recognise and respond to every parent’s needs.
We hope you find the information on these pages useful, please talk to us and lets work together for all parents and families in Leeds.
Jody Sheppard, Parenting Commissioner
Jody.sheppard@leeds.gov.uk
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The Parenting Unit is a small central
unit within our
Children’s Trust arrangements which has the purpose of improving
coherent
planning and commissioning.
It has the following key
roles:
Programmes and education -
For more information here
1. Promote,
publicise, co-ordinate, support and quality assure evaluated accredited
parenting programmes across children’s services, the city and the
continuum of
need and all age groups.
2. Promote and
publicise the agreed menu of parenting programmes that will be delivered
regularly across the city, across the age ranges and levels of need.
3. Make sure
appropriate and accessible information about family support services,
and
parenting programmes, is available to parents and practitioners through a
number of channels.
Participation and commissioning -
For more information here
Promote parental choices and voices in
the delivery of
services by:
1. Supporting
the development of a parent/carer involvement strategy
2. Making sure
families’ views support the commissioning of parenting, and family
support,
services by identifying service gaps.
3. Supporting
city wide parenting forums as appropriate.
4. Provide a
parents involvement service on behalf of Aiming High for disabled
children.
Provide workforce development support
by - For more information here
1. Identifying
the workforce training needs and making sure these are met in relation
to
outcome based practice
2. Promoting
good, outcome focussed practice, and promoting learning from pathfinders
and
pilots.
3. Promoting a
shared ethos for all workers who deliver family support and parenting
services
in all settings.
4. Making sure
that good practice and recent research is sent out across the parenting
and
family support workforce.
Link to resource kits here
Domestic violence June 2010
Working with fathers April 2010
Provision of direct services to
families by -
For more information here
1. Supporting
the implementation of Think Family as it develops.
2. Delivering
all aspects of the Think Family Grant, including the Parenting Early
Implementation
Programme, Respect and Senior Parenting Practitioners, Family
Pathfinder,
Extended Family Pathfinder and Family Intervention Projects.