While the Government’s aim was to normalise and de-stigmatise parenting classes, the report shows that few parents took up the offer of free parenting advice.
A consortium led by Family Lives and supported by Ecorys, the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships and the Family and Parenting Institute have been chosen by the Department for Education, as the preferred bidder to support the development of the parenting classes over the next two years from April.
Currently CANparent is managed by Ecorys, Parenting UK and Orion Print and classes are ran by 14 organisations, including Coram and the National Childbirth Trust.
However, Montessori St Nicholas has just pulled out of the scheme in Camden, frustrated by bureaucracy and low take-up.
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