Involving and engaging parents and families
This page brings together key documents, case studies, research and professional learning for practitioners who work with parents and families. It is designed to support effective and meaningful engagement.
Key documents
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Strategic Framework for Parental Involvement, Parental Engagement, Family Learning and Learning at Home
This Strategic Framework has been developed in response to the demand for clarity on what practitioners need to know when engaging and working with parents and families.
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Local authority parental involvement and engagement strategies
This page has been developed to provide practitioners with easy access to local authority Parental Involvement and Engagement strategies in Scotland.
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Professional Learning Guide - Involving and engaging parents and families
This guide provides background context and information for practitioners and educators who work with parents and families and/or who are involved in delivering training to the workforce.
Parental involvement, parental engagement, family learning and learning at home
Improving outcomes for learners, parents and families remains a key priority across Scotland’s political and educational landscape.
In order to achieve this, there is an ongoing need to ensure that the workforce has the appropriate values, competencies, skills, knowledge, experience and qualifications to work effectively with learners, parents and families.
Practice exemplars
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Engaging parents and families in their children’s learning through family fun groups – Abercromby Primary School
This practice exemplar explains how one primary school used family fun groups to engage parents in their children’s learning, improve communications across the whole school and engage with the wider parent body.
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A family learning approach to maths - Pizza Maths in Renfrewshire
Pizza Maths is a family learning project that helps parents to develop the skills and confidence to support their children with maths, using a holistic social practice approach.
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Engaging parents in language learning – Moorfoot Primary School and Garvel Deaf Centre – Inverclyde Council
This practice exemplar explains how one primary school used British Sign Language (BSL) to engage parents in their children’s learning, improve communications across the whole school and engage with the wider deaf community.
- Collaborating to Transform and Improve Education Systems: A playbook for family-school engagement chevron_right
- Can we put the ‘poverty of aspiration’ myth to bed now? chevron_right
- Increasing the Employability of Parents/Carers chevron_right
- Impact of the Home Learning Environment on child cognitive development: secondary analysis of data from ‘Growing up in Scotland’ chevron_right
- Review of Best Practice in Parental Engagement: Practitioners’ Summary chevron_right
- School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Caring for the children we share chevron_right
- Provider influence on the early home learning environment (EHLE) chevron_right
- Professional Learning Guide - Involving and engaging parents and families chevron_right
- Family Learning and the Outdoors Padlet chevron_right
- Family Learning Numeracy and Maths Padlet chevron_right
- Family Learning Wakelet chevron_right
- Learning at Home Wakelet chevron_right
- National Occupational Standards for Family Learning chevron_right