Family support: Network With Julie Westrop

This is the third year of our Family support Network meetings. The half termly online meetings are intended for those working with families, for example as parent support advisers, family engagement officers, attendance workers or pastoral team members. They provide valuable opportunities for both network members and our highly experienced family engagement and support network leader, Julie, to share resources, practice, successes and difficulties in order to develop individual working practice, confidence, knowledge and skills.

Content to include:

Promoting positive relationships between home and school

Engaging all parents in supporting their child's learning

Supporting parents with parenting

Working with parents to support children's positive emotional health

Supporting families with transitions

End of year review and planning for 2025-6

20.03.24 Family Engagement Network meeting. This was my first network meeting and the support and advice was invaluable. Lots of useful resources and a positive presentation by Julie Westrop.

Great to hear from all the colleagues in attendance and how they are focusing on family engagement in their schools. Signposting to really useful training and websites.

Thank you Julie, I am hoping to engage more with our parents and you have given such great advice and a wealth of resources/websites to gain more information.

Thanks Julie. Interesting and motivating.

Autumn 2024: Julie was amazing and very knowledgeable. We will be working closely with our attendance officer in the future to help support any children or families affected. This was my first session with Julie and it was amazing.

Throughout her career as a teacher, senior leader and senior adviser for a local authority, Julie’s work has focused on inspiring , enabling and empowering all parents and schools to work in partnership in order to ensure best outcomes for each child, not only in terms of their academic achievement but also their emotional health and well-being.

She currently provides consultancy , advice and training to schools across the U.K. on how to do this, drawing on a wealth of experience and research in the field of stakeholder engagement and parental support for learning.

Cafés for All®, (A2E2’s ) highly successful whole school approach to parental engagement and support for learning, is now used in 600+ UK schools