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				27 January 2010
	Welcome to the parenting academy’s newsletter. Each fortnight we will be keeping you informed of our work, with ideas from research and good practice to help those of you working with parents to develop your skills, along with case studies, the latest parenting programmes on the Commissioning Toolkit, training places and important events. Also, it has been announced that the research and workforce development responsibilities of the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners will, from April 2010, be split between King’s College London and the Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC). We are interested in your views about the transition of the parenting academy’s work. Please let us know what you think by emailing us. Latest news Your practice Research   Latest news   First anniversary of the Commissioning Toolkit of Parenting Programmes The Commissioning Toolkit was officially launched on 29 January 2009. One year on and there are 139 parenting programmes on the database with 71 parenting academy-rated. Over 2,200 people have registered to date as Toolkit users, the largest group identifying as practitioners (43%), alongside commissioners/purchasers (14%), programme developers (10%) and researchers (11%). The Toolkit is being used across all English regions with the greatest number of registrations in London and the North West with around 5% logins coming from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and a comparable amount from abroad, mainly from Australia, Canada and the USA. Following its success, the Toolkit and evaluation of parenting programmes will continue after March as part of the parenting academy’s research programme, transferring to King’s College.   In detail: • Using the Commissioning Toolkit • Search the Commissioning Toolkit   Your practice   Parenting – across a cultural divide Read about how Enfield Council is supporting workers and volunteers from community organisations to access parenting academy training places – so they can deliver evidence based programmes to families in their own languages. Iseke Luala is a volunteer coordinator for Central African Youth, which is successfully delivering the Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities programme to 16 parents from Congolese communities. And the group already has a waiting list for the next course.   Find out more: • Read the full article on our website • Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities [PDF, 45 KB]   Research   Talking and listening with your child presentation With 5-10% of Britain’s children showing signs of conduct problems – parent training is the recommended intervention. In December Jennifer Allen and Nathan Faulkner from the personalisation team presented at the Joint Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies Conference on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Children and Families. Their presentation: Talking and listening with your child – An Innovative Parent-Child Conversation-based Adjunct to Parent Training looks at how to improve treatment outcomes through a parent-child conversation approach. View full presentation here [PDF]   Latest sector news on our Knowledge Centre: • Making Britain more family friendly • The Centre for Social Justice green paper on the family • Support for all: the families and relationships green paper				Training update 5,504 training places provided to date Forthcoming events Apply now for our good practice workshops: What is evidence based practice? Being an evidence based parenting practitioner Working with black and minority ethnic families Our website has an extensive list of external events. Toolkit update 139 programmes on the Toolkit 71 Academy-rated Featured programme: Family Transitions Triple P Aims to decrease the likelihood of parents moving into chronic conflict and improve family communication. Other aims include reduction in parental mental health symptoms and enhance child emotional health. You will need to register to view content Submit your programme In your area East East Midlands London North East North West South East South West West Midlands Yorkshire and The Humber     Sign up to our RSS feeds parentingacademy.org If you do not wish to receive emails from us in future please unsubscribe from our mailing list. The parenting academy will never disclose your details to third parties. Read more about our privacy policy. The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners Strand Bridge House 138-142 Strand London WC2R 1HH .