Strategy for parental involvement

Strategy for parental involvement checklist

The checklist presented here takes account of the requirements in the Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006. It is also included in a tick box format in the Parents as Partners in their Children’s Learning Toolkit.

Effective parental involvement is the joint responsibility of professionals and parents. The questions are designed to help education authorities develop an appropriate strategy for parental involvement in their area and to support parents’ involvement in the development and review of that strategy. The checklist is consistent with HMIE’s guide on partnership with parents, but does not replace that guidance which is available at www.hmie.gov.uk.

The Act requires that the strategy covers the education authority’s duties to:

• promote the involvement of parents in the education provided by the school to their child and to pupils generally at their child’s school 
• promote the establishment of Parent Councils 
• give advice and information to Parent Councils and support their operation 
• give advice and information to parents generally
• establish a complaints procedure for representations under the Act.