Episode 14 | Building relationships with Parents and Carers, with Anna Speke

Ruth Lue-Quee is joined again by Anna Speke, to discuss building relationships with parents and carers to support SEN pupils. Anna introduces early years and inclusion, before explaining how to involve parents and carers, rather than just inform them. 

Anna and Ruth then discuss strategies for effective communication, including forging good relationships at the point of meeting of meeting a parent or carer – an example is simply calling them by their preferred name in front of their child. Practitioners may also learn how to understand the parent or carers’ own personal circumstances, to understand their home dynamic better. 

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