“Research shows that when parents and carers are involved in and engage with their children’s learning, and when children and young people live in a supportive home learning environment, it improves children and young people’s attainment and achievement… Parental engagement is building, supporting and improving parents’ and families’ interaction with their child’s learning and the positive impact that it can have. Family learning encourages family members to learn together, fostering positive attitudes to lifelong learning.”

Glasgow City Council, 2023

GLASGOW TOOLS AND SUPPORTS

• Family Learning Team

The Glasgow Life Family Learning team  provide a range of supports and information including a toolkit to help you evaluate and plan your family engagement, a wide variety of family learning programmes, transition supports, and information about supporting families of children with additional support needs. 

Access: Family Learning Team glowblog 

• Nurturing Families

Nurturing Families is a set of resources which any setting which has fully embedded nurturing approaches can use with parent / carer groups to explore what it means to take a nurturing approach both within education and at home. They can be used to support family engagement at any time, but can be particularly helpful for families transitioning into an ELC setting or into Primary.

To access the resources, please contact the relevant email address for your area:

PsychologicalServiceSouth@education.glasgow.gov.uk

PsychologicalServiceNorthWest@education.glasgow.gov.uk

PsychologicalServiceNorthEast@education.glasgow.gov.uk 

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Visit the CPL Page and use the search term ‘Family’ to identify all relevant training opportunities, or click on the CPL category ‘Families’ on the right of this page to find relevant upcoming in-person training events.

NATIONAL DOCUMENTS AND POLICIES

Type ‘Family’ into the search function on right hand side of top row, to identify all relevant national documents and policies.