1. Nabco Childcare and Community Services Partnering with Parents

2. NABCO Child and Community Services  Brookview Tallaght – CDI  St Finian’s Lucan  Island Key East Wall – Docklands/Inner City  Reaching 110 families from diverse backgrounds

3. Parents as Partners  Supporting families to feel welcome, valued and respected  Sharing information about the setting and the curriculum  Sharing information about children’s learning and development  Helping parents to support learning and development at home  Consulting with parents  Parents being involved and contributing to the setting. (Aistear-Síolta Practice Guide NCCA)

4. Marte Meo From our own strengths  Needed a common language across our 3 services 16 staff trained together  Supporting parent/child interactions  Staff need to be able to recognise a quality interaction  Staff need to be able to model quality interactions

5. Aistear  Introduced parents to journey books and linked learning to Aistear  Weekend suggestions board with links to Aistear  Parents survey currently being analysed as part of ongoing action research  Staff training in documentation and assessment

6. Resources for Parents  Parents Plus and Parents Together – Accreditation  Parents Support Group – Weekly meeting  Parent and Toddler Groups  Co-operative Ethos – 2 hours per term from Sept 2015

7. Challenges  The Weather!  Some parents may always remain hard to reach

8. Parents Plus Graduates!