Opening up the debate - work with parents, carers and families

Venue: Holiday Inn, 129 St. Nicholas Circle, Leicester LE1 5LX

Background

The family is centre stage of many current policy agendas and this is an exciting time to expand our understanding about the wider benefits of learning as a family and in a family and how we can capture and define these benefits in a meaningful way to influence policy, research and practice.

NIACE and the Family Learning Local Authority Group (FLLAG) are please to invite you to join us at the very first Building Family Capital conference where we will open the debate on what constitutes family capital in current policy, practice and research arenas.

This conference will bring together the unique range of skills and expertise of academics, policy makers and practitioners. It provides the opportunity to link and discuss the range of mechanisms, processes and interventions that create and sustain family capital. Our combined challenge is to share research and practice evidence to influence thinking across the departmental and agency boundaries.

The conference will cover the following themes:

• Building Family Capital- Intergenerational Learning
• Expanding research methodologies in work with parents and carers
• Rethinking engaging and involving parents and carers
• Diversity and home literacy practices
• Capturing the value of social confidence
• Developing Family Citizenship
• Challenges of linking theory and practice

The conference will be of particular interest to:

• Academics
• Family Learning research students
• Family Learning and parenting practitioners
• Councillors
• Policy makers

and staff from:

• Voluntary and Community Sector
• Learning and Skills Councils
• Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
• Department for Children, Schools and Families
• Lifelong Learning UK
• Extended Services
• Training and Development Agency
• National organisations e.g. Parenting UK, National Family and Parenting Institute
• Prisons
• Probation Services
• Youth Offending Institutions and Prisons

For further details and to reserve a place, look up: http://www.niace.org.uk/Conferences/familycapital.htm

Enquiries to Gurjit Kaur on 0116 204 2833; e-mail: gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk