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Parenting class vouchers

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Luckygirl Mon 11-Jan-16 22:32:11

For goodness sake DC - what can you be thinking about? LAs used to run such things, and family centres to support families having problems - and where are these centres and classes now?.....axed because of the cuts in finance to LAs. All the expertise and momentum of these excellent services down the pan; but now somehow the classes are to be resurrected. It make me furious! New staff will have to be trained and venues organised - and it was all there!

As to giving out vouchers....it is the families with the poorest skills who will have no motivation to use these vouchers; they will be used by those who do not really need them.

Grrrrr

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Luckygirl Wed 13-Jan-16 13:25:37

Locally we had a wonderful parents' centre. People could just drop in for company/cup of coffee/chat and there were classes available on everything to do with parenting, with child care available on the spot.

Along came the LA funding cuts and it was axed.

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Daddima Wed 13-Jan-16 15:22:37

I am a parenting practitioner, and have found over the last few years that the most "committed" parents are the ones who have self referred. I have delivered seminars to parents of P.1 children, and hope I've encouraged all parents to use the service ( which is free in our area)

If a parent ( or parents) have been told that attending a course would be a factor in regaining custody of their child/ children, I've found that they tend to already be carrying out all the strategies!

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Iam64 Wed 13-Jan-16 15:41:58

Daddima , it was ever thus, that the most committed parents are those who self referred. That was always the difference between parenting groups I was involved with either at camhs or at the social work department. Things don't change much do they.

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