Quality Matters: Think Family

Quality Matters: Think Family is a critical new guide to support all those working with families and parents. The publication has been developed with colleagues from across the family learning and working with parents sectors to link and make sense of the quality agenda in multi-agency settings. Our review highlighted 28 different advisory and regulatory quality frameworks and guidance documents used by, or impacting on, family learning and working with parents practitioners operating in group settings.

The guide provides a single reference point for the fundamental building blocks of quality to support all families, especially the most vulnerable families, to receive a good quality learning experience at every family learning and parenting skills session, irrespective of the location or practitioner group. It links all the frameworks and guide-lines to a basic set of building blocks of quality that can be used in any setting.

The book is aimed at a number of audiences: for tutors and facilitators to consider their practice, and for managers, co-ordinators and those responsible for quality to review their organisation’s performance and for any practitioner working in a learning environment across agency boundaries.

Penny Lamb is the Development Officer leading Family Learning at NIACE.
Clare Meade is Project Officer in Family Learning at NIACE.
Pauline Kershaw is Family Learning & Parenting Strategy Manager at Cheshire County Council.

You can also download specific chapters and further information below.

The Guide

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Podcast

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