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Parent engagement

Parental Engagement

Parent engagement 2020-21

We work collaboratively with parents and children to celebrate success and overcome barriers to progress. With the covid pandemic, various lockdowns and uncertainty about the future, it has become all the more important to reinforce trust between members of our community. Our parent consultations are a weekly opportunity for constructive dialogue between the child, his parents/carers/siblings and our staff. It also gives everyone in our community an opportunity to participate in decision making, hold us to account, ask for additional support and give us feedback on the work we do. We make incrementally service improvements, collaborate on planning and implementation, each week to ensure that we genuinely meet the needs of our community in the most authentic and caring way. So, when we achieve amazing progress, we can genuinely say it was a joint effort!

We are currently supporting 37 parents and around 70 children through this service. Of those families: 84% also receive resource packs and additional support to make progress, 9% find the consultations alone are sufficient and we face various challenges engaging the remaining 7%.

Beneficiaries

107

Duration

52 weeks

Locations

4

Average hours of
delivery per week

5

Staff

1

Appointments that are beneficiary led

100%

Volunteers

2

Sustainable delivery capacity

5h/week

Value for money

Our internal value for money calculations show this is a very cost effective way of engaging parents and children with the purpose of promoting wellbeing and progress towards agreed objectives.

Sustainability

This support service is wholly sustainable in the long term. The proceeds from our tutoring service are used to fully fund this service for the benefit of parents living in areas of high deprivation.

Lessons learned

We have put structures in place for greater codesign of our services and extended the coaching support we offer. We found that parents were often looking for us to generate solutions for them, and our solution is to work together to find the best path.

You can read about our consultation work for the year 2019-2020 here

"We started taking him to the academy because he was always in trouble at school and was really behind with his work. His results were always bad. Going to Peak Tuition helped him a lot and he started to behave more at school. I'm really grateful for what you did for him. "

Shama, Bradford

“ I used to hate maths. I did badly in my SATs and felt stupid being in set 5. I used to avoid doing it because I didn't like it. Now I like it. I'm doing my homework and feel like I'll move to set 4 soon.”

Esha, Bradford