However, there are no laurels to rest on here. Among the many issues to address are that parents want services to be practical, professional, to take their views seriously, to listen to them and be emotionally supportive, and to treat them as partners or part of the "team around the child".
The book identifies a lack of co-ordination and information between services and of parents' knowledge of what is available.
What is helpfully acknowledged throughout is the significance of working with parents when supporting families rather than directing services solely at children.
The sections I found most useful were the overviews on the policy context, the summary and crosscutting themes, and the researchers' own summaries of their studies.
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