Parenting

Guidance and services

• Find your local Family Information Service
• Help for families
• Get help from Families First
• Families First: guidance for local authorities
• Managing your child’s behaviour
• Get help from Flying Start
• Flying Start: guidance
• Review and monitoring of a child or young person’s care and support plan
• Children’s resistance or refusal to spend time with a parent: Cafcass Cymru practice guidance
• Working with fathers: guidance for providers
• Parenting engagement and support: guidance for providers
• Wales: a play friendly country
• Play sufficiency toolkit
• Parenting. Give it Time: campaign material
• Parenting. Give it time: compliments slip and business card
• Help your child learn to talk
• Selective mutism factsheet: help for parents
• Stammering factsheet: help for parents
• Deafness factsheet: help for parents
• Talk With Me: training
• How to share and apply Talk With Me messaging
• Positive parenting top tips: alternative language versions
• Guidance for social workers for families where the parent has a learning disability
• Sources of information for parents with a learning disability, in easy read
• Information for parents with a learning disability: easy read
• Explaining public law outlines (PLOs): easy read
• Talk with me: Speech, Language and Communication (SLC) intervention guide
• Phased expansion of Early Years Provision
• Positive parenting: top tips
• Playworks Holiday Project 2024 to 2025: guidance for local authorities
• Speech, Language and Communication (SLC) needs: infographics
• Talk With Me: bilingualism factsheet for professionals
• Talk with me: top 10 tips (editable versions)
• Talk With Me: tongue tie factsheet
• Talk With Me: bilingualism factsheets for parents

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• #TalkParenting: online engagement report
  Report
• Improving Outcomes for Children Advisory Group
  Policy and strategy
• Improving Outcomes for Children: 2 year plan
  Policy and strategy
  Improving Outcomes for Children Advisory Group
• Improving Outcomes for Children: phase 3 (2018 to 2021)
  Policy and strategy
  Improving Outcomes for Children Advisory Group
• Improving Outcomes for Children: annual report 2019
  Report
  Improving Outcomes for Children Advisory Group
• Improving Outcomes for Children Programme: legacy report
  Report
  Improving Outcomes for Children Advisory Group
• Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Joint Adoption Arrangements) (Wales) Directions (2015 No.12)
  Legislation
• Reducing the number of children in need of care
  Report
  Improving Outcomes for Children Advisory Group
• Agreement between Cafcass and Cafcass Cymru for the transfer of cases and the disclosure of information
  Policy and strategy
  Cafcass Cymru
• Families First: performance measure 2017 to 2018
  Report
• Talk With Me: Speech, Language and Communication (SLC) Delivery Plan
  Policy and strategy
• Play training and qualifications review
  Report
• Early years outcomes: framework
  Policy and strategy
• Families First annual performance figures: 2018 to 2023
  Report