The UK's biggest school staffroom
Powering parent participation
Free and exclusive to all UK school staff brought to you by the UK's biggest parent charity, Parentkind.
- Connecting you to thousands of UK school staff in networks with people like you by region, school type and role.
- Sharing wisdom across the crowd of educators and leaders with posts, forums and news all centred on parent participation.
- Learning that advances your skills with 15 hours of free CPD accredited content in 10min and 20min modules.
- Creating change at your school with a wealth of toolkits, templates, resources, policies and support that you can lift and implement.
- Engaging with live events across the community, gaining vital insights and supporting each other's progress, together.
Challenge
Your social contract
is broken
Trust has faded between schools and parents.
Manifesting across every area of school and home life - the conflict is real and escalating.
School view
Many schools are overwhelmed with spiralling priorities and under-resourcing that impacts their school teams every day.
Parent view
Many parents are overwhelmed with the financial crisis and the mental health plight that impacts their families every day.
82% of school leaders have been abused by parents in the last year.
68% have experienced threatening behaviour from parents with 1 in 10 have been the victim of a physical assault. Over a third of UK headteachers experience abuse monthly, 16% experience it every week.
Formal parent complaints are up 25% from last year with 14,900 in England.
Ofsted only took action on 16% of them and just 1% led to an immediate inspection. Parents are feeling they are not heard and are taking matters into their own hands with the school directly.
Nearly half of UK teachers consider leaving due to stress and conflict.
Who can blame them with 1 in 5 headteachers banning a parent from the school grounds last year. Stress is mounting and 1 in 3 school leaders said parental abuse is becoming 'endemic'.
Half of parents lack faith their school will take action on their feedback
Just 51% of parents believe they had a say in decisions affecting their child's education. Satisfaction is falling with primary schools dropped to 58%, and secondary school satisfaction fell to 44%.
90% of teachers have never been trained in parent participation
84% of schools do not have a parent participation strategy and two thirds of UK schools reported a rise in parental complaints. Action has to be taken by schools to make change, for good.
Almost half of parents no longer believe daily attendance is essential
22.3% of children in England are persistently absent with 1 in 10 children missing more school days then they attend. Action has to be taken by parents to make change for good.
