Family Engagement: Network With Julie Westrop

This is the second year of our Family Engagement 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.

Our first session on 22.9.21 will be based on ‘Getting to know your parent/family base and ways to form good working relationships with all’

Subsequent network session content will be co-created between

participants and Julie.

"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