The Blueprint for Parent-Friendly Schools is the culmination of five years’ work, which has included:
- Extensive research and review of the evidence – supporting evidence can be found in Parentkind’s commissioned research report with the Research Centre for Children, Families and Communities at Canterbury Christ Church University, which served as a starting point for further consultation and development, in the parental participation framework
- Consultation with over a hundred organisations including school leaders, key education stakeholders and government agencies involved in education - over the years of creating the Blueprint for Parent-Friendly Schools, we have collaborated with a huge number of education agencies and establishments, policymakers, headteachers and parents. They have helped us refine our Blueprint for Parent-Friendly Schools. We are enormously grateful for all their support and are delighted with the overwhelmingly positive feedback
- Piloting in 21 schools across Doncaster - the pilot captured the impact of schools adopting our Blueprint on pupil attendance rates in schools with previously high levels of absenteeism. For more information, please click here