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National Academy for Parenting Practitioners

 

 

 

The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners (NAPP) was established in November 2007 to train and support the practitioners that parents turn to for advice, training and information around parenting skills so that they can make sure their work is based on research evidence of what really works.

The Parenting Academy's work focuses on three main areas: research, workforce development and knowledge exchange.

The Strategic Plan for 2008-10 sets out the Academy's priorities:

• to create, commission and deliver training for practitioners providing support and training to parents on parenting skills
• to promote and provide appropriate support for those who have undertaken training to enable them to implement it effectively, and
• to gather and evaluate the best quality evidence, using it to refine programmes.

The Academy will conduct research on the most effective parenting programmes, including for example specialist programmes for foster parents. The research plan has been developed to provide the evidence base to ensure that practitioners become increasingly effective. A Commissioning Toolkit has been developed for local authority commissioners of parenting services and others in similar roles across England. The Toolkit, which went live in December 2008, is available from the Commissioning Toolkit site. The Toolkit is a database containing a comprehensive collection of parenting programmes, with evaluation data on their effectiveness, so that commissioners can select, locate and commission the most effective programmes for parents in their area.

The Academy acts as a national centre and source of advice on best practice in parenting support, including what is known to work in different situations with different client groups. The training offer consists of three main elements:

• training in evidence based parenting skills programmes and therapies
• development of modular training in core parenting skills at QCF level 3 for practitioners without a relevant professional qualification, and
• a programme of good practice workshops, for example in how to work with fathers.

The Academy is committed to offering practitioners a range of support to enable those who have undertaken training in delivering parenting skills programmes to implement them effectively. In addition, NAPP has established a regional team to support local authority senior managers and commissioners in the commissioning of parenting support services, and to act as a link between Government Offices (GOs) and local authorities (LAs).

Visit the Parenting Academy's website.

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Last updated on 15/10/2009