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.

11.10.23 Promoting positive relationships between home and school

8.11.23 Engaging all parents in supporting their child's learning

29.2.24 Supporting parents with parenting

20.3.24 Working with parents to support children's positive emotional health

23.5.24 Supporting families with transitions

12.6.24 End of year review and planning for 2024-5

"As usual I've got a lot from our latest session - I've just looked at the resource you shared and it's exactly what I needed for the last 9 months trying to get anxious children through the doors in the morning" June 2021

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