Positive Relationships: Working with parents - Winning ways
By Lesley Staggs
Nursery World
17 July 2008
In this year's Children's Stars awards by 4Children, the Parents as Partners in Early Learning project in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets won the prize for Morton Michel Childcare Team of the Year. Lesley Staggs, who worked as an advisor with them, describes the team's achievement.
Tower Hamlets was one of 41 local authorities allocated additional funding by the DCSF in 2007-08 to 'establish innovative, effective and sustainable ways of securing parental involvement in children's early learning (particularly early communications, language and literacy)'. It turned out to be one of the most rewarding pieces of work that I've ever...