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Expert family organisations to deliver parenting classes in three areas of the country from this spring
The National Childbirth Trust, Save the Children, and the Fatherhood Institute are some of the experienced family organisations who will deliver parenting classes in three areas of the country from this spring.
A coalition government trial starting in April will test out how to establish a new market in parenting classes for all parents. Over the next two years an offer of free universal parenting classes, face-to-face and online, will be available to all parents of children aged five years and under, in Middlesbrough, High Peak in Derbyshire, and Camden in London.
The classes are designed to strengthen parenting skills, and to encourage parents to feel that it is normal to get help in the first few years of their child’s life – just as they do in antenatal classes before their child is born.
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