Attachment Aware Schools: Working with families to enhance parental engagement and home-school relationship

The Attachment Aware Schools pilot project was commissioned by two Local Authorities in England to improve the educational outcomes of Looked After Children, and to build an evidence base. Informed by attachment research.

Attachment Aware Schools: Working with families to enhance parental engagement and home-school relationship

The Attachment Aware Schools program provides a coherent and integrated theoretical framework, discourse, and practice for all practitioners working with children and young people. The aim being to provide strategies to support children’s well-being, behavior, and academic attainment. This paper; however, documents a secondary objective, which was to facilitate collaborative partnerships with families.

Published in The Open family Studies Journal, 2017, 9, (Suppl-1, M8) 160-171.

• Professor Janet Rose, Norland University of Early Childhood
• Dr Karen McInnes, Norland University of Early Childhood
• Dr Rebecca Digby, Norland University of Early Childhood
• Louise Gilbert
• Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus
• Licette Gus