Family Support & Parenting
Parenting is an activity undertaken by those who bring up children. This includes mothers and fathers, foster carers and adoptive parents, step-parents, and grandparents. Local authorities also act as corporate parents for children and young people in their care. There are a lot of ways in which families can be supported to bring up their children. Emotional support, timely information, practical and preventative action and a network of parenting and relationship support can be crucial in helping some families cope.
Good parenting is respectful to the child’s best interests and rights, and is key to successful outcomes for children. Children in Wales supports positive parenting which is about showing children how to behave in ways which are acceptable to their parents and others. Positive parenting helps children to understand how and why they should behave in different situations and by praising and rewarding them when they behave well.
Children in Wales has seen supporting parents and families as a key part of our work for many years, and we have had a staff dedicated to this work since 2002.
Children in Wales’ current work in this area includes:
- Providing training to a range of professionals
- Organising seminars, conferences and other events that share research, policy and good practice
- Providing information, support and resources for the parenting workforce
- Providing opportunities for practice and information exchange through our Parenting Coordinator’s Network
- Promoting positive parenting approaches
- Promoting the use of the National Occupational Standards for Work with Parents
For more information about any of these issues please contact: Anna Westall, Development Officer Family Support, Early Years and Childcare, tel: 029 2034 2434, e-mail: anna.westall@childreninwales.org.uk
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12.11.20 LAUNCHED TODAY: Swansea University survey for the early years sector
14.06.19 Welsh Government surveys public attitudes to physical punishment, 05/06/201...
30.05.19 Support grows for ending the physical punishment of children, 30/05/2019 [W...
12.07.18 Equal protection and lowering the voting age are part of Welsh Government...
11.07.18 Children in Wales delighted by news fewer parents are smacking their childr...
06.07.18 Millbrook Primary School pioneering Children First, 02/07/2018 [W]
22.01.18 Welsh Government launches new campaign, “Take Time to Talk, Listen and Pl...
11.07.18 Children in Wales delighted by news fewer parents are smacking their childr...
13.02.17 Parenting conference, 13/02/17 [W]
21.09.16 The agenda for children, young people and families, 21/09/16 [W]
17.03.15 Conference to explore the role of Family and Youth Information Services in ...
10.09.14 A focus on the role of programmes to support parents, 10/09/14 [W]
12.08.11 Families not areas suffer rural disadvantage, 2/4/08
09.09.19 Consultation on interim proposals for reform of children cases in the Famil...
13.08.19 Flying Start Annual Report April 2018 to March 2019, 07/08/2019 [W]
09.08.19 Children, Young People and Education Committee: Abolition of Defence of Rea...
17.10.18 Parenting. Give it time: Early Years Information Pathway
21.08.18 Child Poverty Action Group: The Cost of a Child in 2018, 20/08/2018 [W/E/S/...
18.01.18 Legislative Proposal to Remove the Defence of Reasonable Punishment
12.09.17 Special Guardianship Orders
There are no upcoming training events relating to this subject.
09.05.17 Parenting conference 2017: What's a good Family Support worker like?
24.03.17 Parenting and family support: Conference report 2017
24.03.17 Parenting conference 2017: Karen Graham's presentation
24.11.15 Healthy relationships leaflet
20.11.14 Kinship Care Guide for Wales
30.10.14 Parents' Week Conference 2014
07.01.13 National Occupational Standards for Work with Parents
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