working with parents
about the course
Most people who trained to work in the childcare settings concentrated their learning on their vocational choices, e.g. teaching, medicine, play and development, speech therapy, residential work, fostering, legislation etc. It is often not until we work within the real day-to-day setting that we realise that working with adults is often the most important and difficult part of the job. Parents are our most important service user alongside the child in any setting; in fact the parent provides our route to working with the child in most situations. It is therefore crucial that we learn how to engage positively with parents even when there is resistance or there are difficult issues to discuss.
course aims and objectives
This course aims to:
- Enable participants to understand the legislation that guides our practices in relation to the rights of children and their parents.
- Provide practical and theoretical approaches that will help participant to take their practices to the next level of understanding of how to work positively with parents.
- Help delegates to understand the importance of developing a team ethos that puts parents at the centre of the child’s world.
- Explore the barriers that can get in the way and make it difficult to work positively and confidently in this area.
- Understand relationships between the parent and the child as well as how the child’s developmental stage can impact on the family.
- Enable participants to gain a sense of how self-esteem impacts on the human being interact and use that learning positively and skilfully as a professional worker.
- Address the most difficult and most positive aspects about working with parents and create some strategies for practices.
- Take a look at strategies to enable professionals to work with some of the difficulties that working with parents can raise, more effectively.
how to book this course
This one-day course is charged at £1000 per course + VAT. To book this course you will need between 12 and 25 people that need training. This could be your own team of staff or you could contact other childcare professionals, local authorities or agencies in your local area who may also require the training. When you have between 12 and 25 delegates that need training you can contact our administration team to discuss available training dates.
Please email info@futurechildcaretraining.com and let us know which month(s) you would like the training to take place, how many delegates you have, and also which town/city you would like to training to be held - for all of our group courses one of our trainers will travel to your local area to deliver the course at a venue you have organised. Once we have checked our training diary we will get back in touch with a list of available training dates and an estimated quote for the training. If you would prefer to speak directly to a member of our team please call 024 7654 5500 and we will be happy to discuss your requirements with you.
You will be responsible for organising a suitable venue and any catering you wish to provide for the delegates. Also, where necessary you will need to organise and pay for one evenings accommodation for our course trainer the night prior to the course date. We will be responsible for making the necessary travel arrangements for our course trainer and the travel costs will be added to your invoice. For further details about the course please do not hesitate to contact us.