Resources
WTPN 2021 Good Practice Guidance update
WTPN Regional Directory of Services
Policy essentials
English earlier GPG versions:
- 2016 WTPN Updated Good Practice Guidance (PDF, 1,374kB)
- Original 2007 Good Practice Guidance on Working with Parents with a Learning Disability
Scottish:
- Supporting Parents with Learning Disabilities in Scotland: Challenges and Opportunities
- The best start: a five year forward plan for maternity and neonatal care in Scotland (2017)
Information about parents with learning disabilities
- Facts and figures
- Introduction to parents with learning disabilities
- Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs: Family Experiences and Effective Practices - Hedy Cleaver and Don Nicholson
- Children’s Needs – Parenting Capacity: Child abuse: Parental mental illness, learning disability, substance misuse, and domestic violence - Hedy Cleaver, Ira Unell and Jane Aldgate
- Fathers with learning disabilities experience of adult social care services (PDF, 1,068kB)
- Being a family: Parents with learning disabilities in Wales (PDF, 670kB)
How do adult services engage with parents with learning disabilities
This is a short report on the findings from the NIHR SSCR 'How do adult services work with parents with learning disabilities project?' Adult services and parents with learning disabilities (Office document, 99kB)
Joint working protocols
The first three documents are outputs from the NIHR SSCR 'How do adult services work with parents with learning disabilities project?' They are a free to use resources to support LA’s to develop joint working protocols. The documents are:
- Context (PDF, 282kB) Overview of key contextual issues to consider when developing local policies and protocols.
- Main document (PDF, 430kB) Example Protocol which address the key issues in this area of practice.
- Underlying core concepts (PDF, 350kB): Key information regarding Definition of learning disability, Parents with learning disabilities, Joint working, assessment, advocacy, legal and policy context.
- BathNES - Protocol for Supporting Disabled Adults in their Parenting Capacity (PDF, 363kB)
Positive practice
- wtpn_top_tips (PDF, 343kB)
- Finding the right support (PDF, 511kB) - Beth Tarleton, Linda Ward and Joyce Howarth (2006)
- Supporting parents with learning disabilities and difficulties: stories of positive practice (PDF, 932kB) - WTPN (2009)
- Supporting learning disabled parents to keep their children – Community Care Article
- Llais, Chantelle's story (PDF, 102kB)
- How to Guide - Parenting Projects (PDF, 3,088kB)
- How to Guide - Social Connectedness Projects (PDF, 3,175kB)
- Successful professional practice working with parents with learning difficulties (PDF, 817kB)
- Supporting Parents with a learning disability through child protection system (PDF, 1,095kB)
- Joint Presentation WTPN Regional Seminars 2018 (Office document, 392kB)
- Successful practices in supporting parents with learning difficulties
Assessment of parents
- wtpn assessment key messages (PDF, 235kB)
- Parenting Assessments for Parents with Learning Difficulties (Office document, 2,498kB)
- Kingston Local Safeguarding Children Board Joint Protocol for the Assessment of Parents with Learning Disabilities May 2013
- Assessing Parents With Learning Disabilities - Sue McGaw (Powerpoint)
Easy information for use with parents (See also information for parents)
- You and Your Baby; Your and Your Little Child (1-5); My Pregnancy, My Choice; Sex and Relationships pack; Safe Sex and Contraception; Friendships and Relationships
- Finding the Right Help – Including a list of resources for use with parents with learning difficulties
- Parenting in Pictures – Australian on-line resource including videos, facts etc. on all aspects of parenting
- Booklets explaining how to recognise abuse: emotional; physical; sexual; neglect; keeping your child safe; controlling and threatening behaviour
- Pregnancy and Me - From Bump to Baby (PDF, 2,702kB)
- Easy read guide to wellbeing (PDF, 2,447kB)
- Meanings of different Social Services Meetings (PDF, 391kB)
- The Court and your child: when social workers get involved (PDF, 2,165kB)
- When Children, Young People and Families Services are involved (PDF, 5,178kB)
- Official Solicitor easy read booklet (PDF, 1,448kB)
- Supporting Parents with a learning disability through child protection system (PDF, 1,095kB)
- University Health Board - Breastfeeding booklet and other helpful information
- Supporting parents well (PDF, 1,520kB)
- Hidden Voices of Maternity - Easy Read
- Baby Buddy app
- Example of Letter before Proceedings (Office document, 1,812kB) - Miriam Williams, West Sussex County Council
- Example of Care Plan (Office document, 1,981kB) - Miriam Williams, West Sussex County Council
- Example of Danger Statement (Office document, 861kB) - Miriam Williams, West Sussex County Council
- How to use a solicitor in England and Wales - Easy Read (PDF, 1,940kB)
- Going to Court: Easy Read Information for Parents/Carers (SCOTLAND) (PDF, 1,131kB)
Guidance for specific professional groups
Midwives and Nurses:
Social workers:
Information for Parents with Learning Difficulties
- Plain Facts - Being good parents (PDF, 2,796kB)
- Plain Facts - Helping parents with learning difficulties to speak up
- Good practice guidance-working with parents with learning disabilities/easy read (PDF, 1,893kB)
- The Court and your child: when social workers get involved (PDF, 2,165kB)
- Successful practices in supporting parents with learning difficulties
Fathers
- Being a dad leaflet (PDF, 2,962kB)
- Being a dad booklet (easy read) (PDF, 3,844kB)
- Barbers edit (wav 52kB)
- Policy Briefing 70 The importance of being Dad: services working with families should recognise and support all fathers, including those with learning difficulties
- The Barber Shop - video captioned (mov 628kB)
Videos
- Central Advocacy Partners - I AM a good parent
- People First Parenting
- Starting Primary School: for parents who have learning disabilities
- Improving support for parents with learning disabilities
- Dads with learning disabilities
- Successful practices in supporting parents with learning difficulties
- The Barber Shop - video captioned (mov 628kB)
- TEDx Talk - What we can learn from parents with disabilities - Marjorie Aunos