{"id":1704,"date":"2026-01-15T07:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/?page_id=1704"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:43:02","slug":"family-engagement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/family-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>&#8220;Research shows that when parents and carers are involved in and engage with their children&#8217;s learning, and when children and young people live in a supportive home learning environment, it improves children and young people&#8217;s attainment and achievement&#8230; <\/em><em>Parental engagement is building, supporting and improving parents&#8217; and families&#8217; interaction with their child&#8217;s learning and the positive impact that it can have. Family learning encourages family members to learn together, fostering positive attitudes to lifelong learning.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em><strong>Glasgow City Council, 2023<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<h1>GLASGOW TOOLS AND SUPPORTS<\/h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.84615;font-size: 1.14286rem\">\r\n<h3>Family Learning Team<\/h3>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt size-medium wp-image-1766 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2026\/01\/15195223\/Glasgow-life-capture-300x172.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2026\/01\/15195223\/Glasgow-life-capture-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2026\/01\/15195223\/Glasgow-life-capture-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2026\/01\/15195223\/Glasgow-life-capture-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2026\/01\/15195223\/Glasgow-life-capture-624x357.png 624w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2026\/01\/15195223\/Glasgow-life-capture.png 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">The Glasgow Life Family Learning team<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.71429;margin-bottom: 1.71429rem\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Access:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/glasgowfamilylearningteam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Learning Team glowblog<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\r\n<h3>Nurturing Families<\/h3>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt  wp-image-1117 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2025\/10\/10132849\/NF-Parent-Carer-Booklet-Photo-224x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"271\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2025\/10\/10132849\/NF-Parent-Carer-Booklet-Photo-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2025\/10\/10132849\/NF-Parent-Carer-Booklet-Photo-624x835.png 624w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2025\/10\/10132849\/NF-Parent-Carer-Booklet-Photo.png 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">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.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>To access the resources, please contact the relevant email address for your area:<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">PsychologicalServiceSouth@education.glasgow.gov.uk<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>PsychologicalServiceNorthWest@education.glasgow.gov.uk<\/p>\r\n<p>PsychologicalServiceNorthEast@education.glasgow.gov.uk\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h1>TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES<\/h1>\r\n<p>Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/cpl-list\/\" rel=\"noopener\">CPL Page<\/a>\u00a0and use the search term\u00a0<strong>\u2018Family\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0to identify all relevant training opportunities, or click on the CPL category\u00a0<strong>\u2018Families\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0on the right of this page to find relevant upcoming in-person training events.<\/p>\r\n<h1>NATIONAL DOCUMENTS AND POLICIES<\/h1>\r\n<p>Type <strong>\u2018Family\u2019<\/strong> into the search function on right hand side of top row, to identify all relevant national documents and policies.<\/p>\r\n<p>*March 26 &#8211; there is a temporary fault with this function which we are working to fix.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Research shows that when parents and carers are involved in and engage with their children&#8217;s learning, and when children and young people live in a supportive home learning environment, it improves children and young people&#8217;s attainment and achievement&#8230; Parental engagement is building, supporting and improving parents&#8217; and families&#8217; interaction with their child&#8217;s learning and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80222,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1704","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1704\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}