Agenda item

Director of Community and Children’s Services.

The Board viewed a presentation on the parental engagement toolkit (one for primary school parents, one for secondary school parents) from Cristina Odone (Chair of The Parenting Circle charity, and Head of Family Policy Unit at the Centre for Social Justice).

The Board noted increased levels of disengagement among parents generally (evidenced partly by the near-tripling of PA figures nationally) and the ongoing work to engage with parents being undertaken by CoLAT, which will be running the toolkit pilot as of September 2023 (with updates to be provided to the Board in late 2023/early 2024).