This section brings together useful links to key documents, helpful websites, and recordings of previous webinars. It’s designed to give you quick access to practical guidance, further learning, and tools that support your work on this topic.
Commissioning Parenting Programmes in Family Hubs
This webinar showcases Nesta's Fairer Start mission's brand-new digital tool called PaSCAL (Parenting Support Commissioning Assistant for Local Areas)
to support commissioners of parenting interventions. For the slides to accompany this webinar please visit our Knowledge Hub.
Education Endowment Foundation – Harnessing the Power of the Home Learning Environment
Explores how early talk, play, and reading routines can boost learning outcomes, with practical insights for early years practitioners and parents.
Education Policy Institute – Supporting the Home Learning Environment
Summarises national research on how early home learning shapes school readiness and lifelong attainment, with recommendations for policy and practice.
Peeple – Understanding the Home Learning Environment
Offers accessible guides, training, and downloadable resources to help parents and practitioners promote play, talk, and shared learning at home.
National Literacy Trust – Early Years Resources
Provides evidence-based activities, story ideas, and tools to support children’s language and literacy development from birth to age five.
Better Health Start for Life – Home Learning Environment
A UK government campaign encouraging parents to boost learning and bonding through small, everyday activities like talking, singing, and reading.
BookTrust – Reading with Your Child
Practical tips and age-appropriate book suggestions to help families make shared reading a regular and enjoyable part of home life.
Leicestershire County Council – The Home Learning Environment
Explains how early relationships and communication build the home learning environment, with resources for early years settings and local programmes.
Oxford Academic – Parenting Style and Youth Outcomes in the UK
Research study linking different parenting styles to children’s wellbeing, behaviour, and educational attainment in the UK context.
UNICEF Parenting Hub
Global resource offering research-based guidance on responsive parenting, child development, and emotional wellbeing.
How does parenting impact children's development? | Nesta
Discusses innovation and research in parenting support and early childhood development, highlighting evidence-informed interventions.
What is positive parenting and how is it done? | NCT
Parent-facing article introducing positive parenting techniques, emotional regulation, and ways to strengthen parent-child relationships.