Schools and Parents: A New Partnership, is a research report, conducted with over 2,000 parents and 1,000 teachers explores what motivates, and hinders, successful parental engagement to benefit the child, parents and schools. 

It can be downloaded from http://www.nextgenerationlearning.org.uk/Global/Schools%20and%20parents%20-%20a%20new%20partnership%20A4.pdf. 

Parents as partners in learning, another booklet from Becta, has been developed to provide schools and headteachers with information on how to use technology to improve communications with parents. 

It can be downloaded from http://www.nextgenerationlearning.org.uk/PageFiles/1239/Parents%20as%20partners%20in%20learning.pdf.