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Activities oriented to improving how parents approach and carry out their role as parents and to increasing parents’ child-rearing resources
Parents can get in trouble with the law if their child gets arrested - find out about parenting programmes, Parenting Contracts and Parenting Orders
Information on working with parents and carers on a voluntary and statutory basis.
An article which looks at how parents in Great Britain have been trying to balance caring for their children with working from home.
Evidence from low and middle-income countries
Findings from Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme
Report from the evaluation of the national academy for parenting practitioners' (NAPP) training offer in evidence-based parenting interventions.
Research bringing together evidence on parenting behaviours and the extent to which public policy can support parents.
Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate
This report assessed the effectiveness of 3 parenting programmes to reduce anti-social behaviour and improve reading in deprived inner-city primary school children.
This report provides an update on the effect of parental problems, such as substance misuse and mental illness, on children's welfare.
Report presenting the findings from a study providing a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the parenting workforce.
Legal rights, birth certificates, parental rights and child maintenance
This report examines the effectiveness of 5 programmes for use in the parenting early intervention programme (PEIP).
An evaluation of the AdOpt parenting programme, which offers support and parenting techniques to adoptive parents.
Analysis of spending patterns by household type in 2020 to 2021, including comparisons of single and two-parent households using Living Costs and Food Survey data. This article also highlights reported experiences regarding increases in the cost of living among different...
How to make arrangements for your children if you divorce or separate, mediation and how to apply for a court order if you cannot agree.
This report presents the evaluation of CANparent, a trial of the market potential for high quality universal parenting classes.
You can be prosecuted if your child has unauthorised absence from school - truancy, help with getting your child to school, and legal action to enforce school attendance
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