Your school community needs you!

Please sign our pledge to support putting a whole school community approach at the heart of our education system, with parents/carers, parent groups, schools/nurseries and the wider community working together to support families.
The saying 'It takes a village to raise a child' is true!
The Connect Pledge

I pledge to support a whole school community approach in our education system. This means supporting practice, policy and legislation which builds family engagement into schools, nurseries and community-based education. We need a clear focus on the whole school community approach which enables family engagement in children and young people's learning and education. Family engagement is the key factor in improving young people's outcomes.  

Specifically, I support measures, proposals and policies which recognise:
  • the centrality of parents and carers in children and young people’s learning 
  • the important role of parents in improving schools and nurseries 
  • the importance of shared approaches and strong relationships between families, schools/nurseries and communities
  • fairness, kindness and equality of access to all opportunities for all children and young people in our education system.

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* 1. Your name

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* 2. Email address (so we can keep you updated on the pledge. Your details will be stored securely and will not be shared with other parties).

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we've seen some fantastic examples of whole school communities pulling together to support  families. Parents/carers, parent groups, schools and the wider community have done amazing things together to show they care about local families - keeping in touch, sharing information and providing practical support (food, clothing, packs for school work etc).

At Connect, we really want to see this wonderful way of working together in school communities to continue.
We think you'll agree: a whole school community approach should be at the heart of our education system.  We have much to learn from our experiences during COVID-19 – what worked and what left families and children on the margins because COVID-19 put the spotlight on the inequalities in our society.

However, when everyone works together in our school communities, to support families and to help children and young people learn, we can really make a difference to children's lives.  

We are now calling on parents/carers, parent groups, politicians, policy-makers, local authorities and schools/nurseries to work to support school communities as a whole, with schools/nurseries at the heart of their communities, as the way to make real change happen.  

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* 4. Which local authority area do you live in?

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