The latest episode of Thrive’s Connected podcast focuses on how educators can create and maintain good relationships with parents and carers. In the podcast, Rose Webb, Thrive’s Policy, Practice and Innovation lead, explains the benefits that a trusting and open relationship between home and school can bring for staff, parents and carers and, of course, for children and young people.

“Children and young people transition between home and school and there are lots of experiences that happen in between. If there is a supportive relationship between home and school it means that children understand that they are connected and it helps them to have a sense of the network of support and care that is around them,” said Rose.

Listen to discover: 

·       How good relationships between home and school can help create a preventative approach to mental health problems, with parents and carers more likely to be pro-active about communicating issues at home and potential problems.

·       What a trusting and open relationship with families and carers looks like in practice.

·       Why parents may struggle to engage with school because of their own past experiences – and how to respond if this is the case.

·       How Family Thrive sessions can foster these good relationships.

How good relationships can be developed and maintained in the smallest details such as the language used on a school’s website