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Seeking to promote and protect the human rights of children, young people and adults with disabilities/additional needs, in their receipt of vital public services, through the empowerment of their parent carers as advocates.
Parent Action exists to enable the parent carers, children, young people and adults with disabilities/additional needs, to be heard, understood and acted upon by families, communities and statutory and voluntary public service providers. We are here to help promote effective and meaningful multidisciplinary and interagency partnership, with parent carers, in all public services (health and social care services, all schools and education services, community planning and community and voluntary organisations and groups.
Parent carers and professionals working together.
See how we empower everyone in the team around our children:
Parent Action Connects
online and face to face, independent family advocacy service for parent carers = 1 to 1 independent advocacy and group peer advocacy support, enabling and empowering parent carers as advocates for their children’s human rights in vital public services.
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Parent Wellness Centres and Community Learning Hubs
A one-stop community hub for parent carers and parents, providing specialist early education and childcare services for babies and children with additional needs/disabilities, and a community adult learning hub for parent carers, focusing on early intervention and prevention of mental health harms to parent carers, their children and families.
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Community Action Training
bespoke consultancy and training services for public service professionals, teams, providers and commissioners, on quality improvement of their parent carer participation practice, in all public services to babies, children, young people and adults with disabilities/additional needs, in all community settings.
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Community Campaigning
community campaigning, is a collaborative way of working by parent carers, to raise awareness of the people in power in public services, around issues of importance to parent carers in local communities.
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Parent Action Data
A repository of parent carers anonymised, lived experience data, gathered during delivery of our Parent Action Connects independent advocacy service, available at cost to public service providers, commissioners and teams, to support their quality improvement and parent carer participation duties and responsibilities (Children’s NI Order, 1995)
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