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Leadership of parental engagement - a tool to help you audit and improve your practice

Subject: Schools, families and communities
Audience: Headteachers, Early years leaders, Stakeholders and partners
Date of publication: August 2011   |   File format and size: PDF, 270 Kb

However good your staff, whatever your pupils' social class or ethnic background, there is one factor that impacts on the achievement of primary school children more than any other: their parents' involvement at home. So what is your school really doing to help parents take an active role in their children's education? And what should you be doing next? This tool will help you find out.

Using straightforward language and clear thinking, this practical guide helps school leaders and other stakeholders, including teachers and governors, to look at why you need to involve parents, including the challenges you want to address and outcomes you want to achieve.

Whether your school has a particular barrier it needs to overcome or if it needs a whole new strategy, this simple tool will help you improve.

In addition, the auditing templates will help you audit and evaluate your current practice and help you develop better links with parents.