What resources are available?

Training resources were developed by the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners (NAPP) for four of the mandatory units of the QCF Level 3 Work with Parents qualifications. The resources are:

These resources will require trainers to use their own teaching skills and experience to assess how the curriculum for each unit will be taught to their group of learners. Each group of learners will have slightly different learning needs, depending on a range of factors including the services which they work in and their prior qualifications and experience.

Every group will need to be encouraged to appropriately share their own experiences, and each trainer will need to continually encourage the learners to apply the knowledge, theory and skills which are being taught to their practice. Practitioners will be trained to enable parents to reflect on their own experiences of being parented, so the trainer will need to enable practitioners to reflect on these experiences too.

A trainer will need to be able to model and share how they themselves have been able to apply the curriculum to their own practice with parents, both in terms of understanding the lives of parents and how they can be helped.

The model of helping which is taught throughout the course is fully explained in:

All trainers should read both these publications prior to commencing training and take time to thoroughly familiarise themselves with the model.

Each unit has:

  • Learning outcomes and assessment criteria which learners will be required to evidence in their portfolio for assessment.
  • A recommended minimum curriculum which the academy recommends is taught to students in order for them to meet the learning outcomes and assessment criteria and also have the core knowledge, theory and skills for work with parents.
  • A set of learner handouts for each module.
  • A list of recommended resources.
  • Some PowerPoint slides to accompany some of the subject areas.
  • Trainer notes which include some suggested methods for delivering the curriculum. Trainers should choose the most appropriate methods for the group, and expect to use their own ideas as well.