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Family Foundations: a new accredited course based around PEAL

A new course for all those wanting to examine and improve their work supporting families by developing parents’ confidence in supporting young children’s development, learning, health, and wellbeing.

Mother and baby This course has been developed in the context of the current emphasis in recent national policy developments on the need for increased support for child development; putting parents and families at the heart of services; the importance of intervening early and the role of different services working together to ensure that families receive early help where and when needed.
Responding to the report published by the DfE, Supporting Families in the Foundation Years, the course draws on key messages from the following recent reports:
  • The Foundation Years: Preventing poor children becoming poor adults. The report of the independent review on poverty and life chances by the Rt Hon Frank Field MP
  • Early intervention: the next stepsan independent report to Her Majesty’s Government and Early Intervention: Smart Investment, Massive Savings - the second independent report to Her Majesty’s Government by Graham Allen MP; and
  • The Early Years: Foundations for Life, Health and Learning. An independent report on the Early Years Foundation Stage to Her Majesty’s Government by Dame Clare Tickell.

Built on current policy, practice and research the course has at its core the importance of engaging parents in their children’s development both to provide long term benefits for children but also as a way of increasing their confidence as parents and building resilience in the family.

Modules covered are:
A.  Policy, research and  evidence based practice
B.  Working to standards, a principled and reflective approach
C.  Developing and maintaining effective partnership working with parents
D.  Parents, early years and learning (PEAL)
E.  Integrating learning, knowledge and skills in planning for change

This course is based on 3 units at level 3 leading to the City and Guilds Work with Parents Award. The Units include the mandatory unit 300 Build and Maintain Relationships with Parents, and two optional units: 306 Reflect on and Update own Knowledge and Practice and 311 Engage Parents in their Children’s Early Learning.  The course is an integrated 5-day programme that can be delivered in a flexible way.

For further information please email Priya Plowman at ecuadmin@ncb.org.uk or call 0207 843 6444