Nursery World - Social media - Getting parents involved

Your online strategy can be incredibly useful for engaging your
children's carers. Kate Tyler explains how to go about it

When it comes to children's success, good relationships between parents and practitioners are almost as important as regular food and sleep.

Any early years practitioner knows that better engaged parents equals improved outcomes in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

Parents who have some understanding of their child's likely development in the EYFS are more informed, more supportive and more likely to help the child learn at home.

Communication with parents has renewed emphasis under the Common Inspection Framework, yet getting information to parents isn't always as easy as it should be.

To get your message across, you have to be prepared to do it in a variety of ways.

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