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Work With Parents level 3 award WELCOME! Unit 300 Trainer – Jenny Collins

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Plan for the Day • • • •

Introductions and overview of course What is ‘ Work with Parents’?

National Occupational Standards Principles underpinning NOS – – – – –

Rights of Child Partnership Strengths based practice Respecting diversity and anti discrimnatory practice Evidenced based practice Working Together to Keep Children Safe

Learning Outcomes

National Context

• Unit 300 – Work with Parents to build and maintain relationship

Children Act 2004 & Every child Matters • Improving the outcomes for all children 1. Being Healthy 2. Staying Safe 3. Enjoying and Achieving 4. Making a positive Contribution 5. Economic Wellbeing

• Learning outcome 1 : Understand the principle and values that underpin work with parents • Learning Outcome 2 : Understand the nature of effective relationships with parents

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Whole Family Approach

Sure Start

Social Exclusion Task Force: Reaching Out: Think Family Adult and children Services working together to tackle root causes of children’s disadvantage: • Poverty • Worklessness • health

Children Centres – tackling disadvantage • Child Development and school readiness • Parenting aspirations and skills • Child and family health life chances

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What is work with Parents?

Developing Interpersonal Skills:

See work book page 8:

Individually consider list of skills.

Scale how confident you feel in each of those skills (1 = no confidence, 10 = very confident) Choose one area.

Paired exercise to set personal goal: • What are you doing, or noticing now that makes you feel you are on that point in scale?

• What would you be doing or noticing if you were one point up on the scale towards being more confident?

• What would other people notice when you are further on your scale?

Exercise: Individually consider how far your role includes these opportunities. Are there any other aspects to your job that is not listed.

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The Nine ‘C’s of Support

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What are the National Occupational Standards?

1. All work with parents should reflect the rights of the child set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) ratified by the UK in December 1991.

2. Practitioners need to work in partnership with parents at all times, encouraging independence and self-reliance.

3. Mothers, fathers and those in a parenting role are acknowledged as having unique knowledge and information about their children and are the primary educators of their children.

4. Children are the responsibility of, and make a positive contribution to, the wider society as well as their families 5. Work with parents should value and build on parents existing strengths, knowledge and experience.

6. Parenting information, education, support and interventions should be available to, and practitioners should engage with, all those in a parenting role.

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What are the National Occupational Standards?

7. Services should aim to offer a range of appropriate support according to both child and parent level of need, what is available in the family already and in communities.

8. Respect for diversity and different needs, promotion of equality and taking action to overcome threatening, offensive or discriminatory behaviour and attitudes are of fundamental importance to work with parents.

9. Anyone who works with parents should have specific training, qualifications and expertise that are appropriate to the work they are undertaking.

10.Good practice requires reflection, regular and appropriate supervision and support as well as a continuing search for improvement.

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Principles underpinning the NOS • EXC • Read through NOS • In 4 groups discuss any that particularly struck you or perhaps you disagreed with.

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11. Parenting practitioners utilise effective working partnerships with agencies and individuals in providing support to parents and families. Integrated working and the sharing of approaches across services is a key element of this role.

12. Parenting information, education, support and interventions should utilise the best known evidence for good outcomes for children and parents.

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NOS Principle 1:Rights of child

Rights of child

• United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child : • Legally binding international agreed set of non – negotiable standards and obligations • Core Principles:

• Ex page 6 handbook • Individually consider how convention applies in your work.

• Discuss in Groups of 3

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Non-discrimination Devotion to best interests of child Right to life, survival and development Respect for views of child Working Together to Keep Children Safe

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NOS principle 2: Partnership

NOS Principles 2 &3: Strength based practice

What is partnership?

Individually consider Partnership/ Expert and Befriender models In groups discuss extent to which you use these models. Critically debate partnership model in practice.

3. Parents acknowledged as having unique knowledge and information about their children and are primary educators 5. Work with parents should value and build on existing strengths, nowledge and experience

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Strength based approach

Deficit Approach

What is strength based approach?: • Positive emphasis on resilience and protective factors, assets and strengths Why use strength based approach?: • Hope • Expectation of success • Empowerment and independence • Utilising resources and strengths Are there risks to taking this approach? Discuss

What is deficit approach?

Focus on needs, deficits and problems What can be the effect?

• Hopelessness and helplessness and failure • Low expectations • Creating dependency • Staying stuck What are the reasons why practitioners are drawn into taking a deficit approach? Discuss

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Equality and Diversity • EXC Pairs:Think of teachers that have given you least or most confidence. What was the difference between what they did?

Pairs Go back to goal you set earlier- discuss what resources and skills that has enabled you to be where you are now and that you can use to move forward.

• NOS Principles: Number 8 • Respect for diversity and different needs, promotion of equality and taking action to overcome threatening, offensive discriminatory behaviour and attitudes are of fundamental importance to the work.

• See equalities work book

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Frame of Reference • Add diagram page 2 of work book on diversity

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Working with Value Difference and Similarities What are values?

• Moral principles and beliefs guiding individuals and groups to behave in certain ways. Values shape choices and behaviour.

• Society or cultural values reflected in legal systems, organisations and communities (e.g. freedom of speech, equality of opportunity) Where do they come from?

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My Values • Ex 2 page 5, complete page 6 sheet individually then discuss.

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Equality and Anti discrimination

NOS principle 12: Evidenced based practice

• Equality of opportunity defined and enforced through legislation • In practice it involves: – Respect for all people and valuing their individuality and difference – Fostering positive working and learning environment – Practitioners examination of their own values, beliefs, attitudes and expectations – Recognising impact of dis crimination – Promoting sense of belonging that encourages self esteem Working Together to Keep Children Safe

12. Parenting information, education, support and interventions should utilise the best known evidence for good outcomes for children and parents.

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Evidenced Based Practice Evidence based practice model

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Evidence based practice

Practitioner expertise

Best Evidence

Parents needs and expectations and values

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