Positive feedback for Council following review of Early Years programme

Date Added: 17/09/2021

Not-for-profit organisation Parents As First Teachers review our work

We have been praised by not-for-profit organisation Parents As First Teachers, after a review of its training programme which supports families from pregnancy until their children are three years old.

We are an affiliate of the Parents As First Teachers (PaFT) programme, which is designed to help families build positive parenting behaviours, give parents the confidence to support their child’s learning and development, and enhance family wellbeing. Our Early Years practitioners deliver the programme, and work on a one-to-one basis with families.

The news follows a review of our work to implement the programme and train our Early Years practitioners to deliver it. Our performance was bench-marked against the UNICEF Standards for Early Childhood Development Parenting Programmes.

The review said: “Despite the huge challenges of retaining family engagement, especially with young parents, during the pandemic, Central Bedfordshire PaFT practitioners delivered 172 personal visits. This includes visits to parents under the age of 21, creatively using a combination of face to face, video and audio approaches.”