Parent Support Advisor

Many of our schools already provide elements of parenting support and most meet the core extended services requirements.  Family services also provide a support mechanism for this work and can be contacted for training and advice on additional parenting advice and guidance. 

Parents Centre - helping you to help your child  Information and support for parents on how to help with your child's learning, including advice on choosing a school and finding childcare http://www.parentscentre.gov.uk/ experts and parents views for all age groups.

The attached documents are the latest support training guidance and advice.  This document tells you about what is in the training programme. This link is to a training programme for supporting volunteers or family support workers.

Please view the documents below which are for PSA Line Managers information

A recent survey of the managers: A handout for Line Manager's meetings.

Audit tool for PSAs

Materials for Schools: A booklet on Involving Parents, raising achievements from the Dept of Education and Skills.

How to help families in trouble: a short guide by the Family & Parenting Institute

PSA functional map - With guidance and usage for PSA Project work written by the TDA

National Induction Programme for level 3/4 children's workforce practitiioners. Guildance on PSA training for line manager written by the TDA

PSA programme: training and support model written by the TDA

Useful TDA website links for PSA Line Managers

TDA Funding and sustainability

TDA Management

TDA Parent Support Adviser project Resource Kit 1 and Resource Kit 2

PSA/Learning Mentor Training Spring 2009

Dates	Venue	Module
22nd April 2009	Kinglsey Suite Kinglsey Village	Principles, values and legislation
29th April 2009	Kinglsey Suite Kinglsey Village	Understanding children’s/Young people development
5th May 2009	Kinglsey Suite Kinglsey Village	Building relationships/ Safeguarding children and Young People
11th May 2009	Kinglsey Suite Kinglsey Village	Integrated working
21st May 2009	Kinglsey Suite Kinglsey Village	Role specific:  Working with parents in aschool context to help engage them with childrens learning
3rd June 2009	Kinglsey Suite Kinglsey Village	Role specific:  Extended roles, working with families, family learning, Problem solving with children and families, supporting transitions, supporting attendance, supporting improved behaviour
Participants would be expected to complete a range of workplace related tasks, complete a reflective log and complete a case study within 2 months of training. Certificates are awarded by the CWDC for completion of this work.

There will be an expectation that the school or service doing the direct line management of staff in this role attend one day of training on 1st May 2009 for the line management and workplace based training requirements. 

 New ideas.  Arts for health. www.artsforhealthcornwall.org.uk  events, training and education on arts and health.

Parentline Plus The government have just released details of a huge new parent information initiative.  Further details are contained here.  Essentially this project supports the new parent support advisor role - which has some similarities with our Learning Mentor work and role.

The parenting strand of extended services.  CPR Success Zone (CPRSZ)  schools are meeting the parenting support requirements of extended services in a number of ways. The cluster and schools are constantly reviewing the offer to find out what parents want and need and then ensuring that services are available locally.  Access is sometimes offered by signposting to services offered by the statutory services such as health and social care  county services, community volunteers and charities and trusts with special interests.  Schools also provide information to through the Family Information Services directory, national and local sources of advice and support through brochures, school directories and newsletters. Schools provide information sessions to parents of pupils joining and transferring to school.

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Schools build on curriculum initiatives such as Healthy schools and themed weeks such as family learning week and child safety week.   Family learning , study support sessions and training in IT skills at the CPR Learning Space enable parents to support children to make progress. Informal programmes using ICT are offered centrally to all schools through the Learning Space

 

PACT

Parents and ChildTtogether (PACT) is a parenting support programme based on a designed programme manual. The PACT team also support the widespread use of the SEAL programme in schools.   County and Cornwall College also offer Family Learning programmes which are held regularly on sufficient demand.

Informal parenting support is offered by learning mentors at school. For a referred child parent support is offered by advisors (PSA) in the schools multi agency support team (SMART) and CAMHS.

 

Transition information, part of the parenting strategy is provided by schools, Connexions, and the AimHigher programme.

 

For further information on Parenting in CPR Success Zone or any of the programmes in the CPR Success Zone please contact rstrongman@cornwall.gov.uk in the first instance.  This document gives the government's perspective on working with families 'at risk'.

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