What is Parent Link?
Parent Link aims to help parents, schools and the education authority work together to meet children's educational needs.
Parent Link is here to listen to you and give advice and information about your child's education. It is:
- free
- confidential.
We can give you information, advice and details of other support available.
- "My child is struggling at school. What can I do?"
- "I can't cope. Where do I look for help?"
- "How can I get my child back into school?"
Help from a volunteer
We may be able to put you in touch with one of our local volunteers (Independent Parent Supporter) who knows the system.
They can:
- listen to how you and your child feel and what you want to achieve
- provide information
- explain how schools and the education authority can help your child
- help you talk to teachers and professionals to sort things out for your child
- help you fill out forms and help with letters etc
- help you prepare for meetings and come with you, if you wish
- tell you of your child's rights and your rights as a parent
- help sort out disagreements.
Information on other support available.
All our volunteers are trained and supervised. Many of them are parents themselves.
Parent Link also provides:
- parent information contacts (781k)- a person in your school that can help
- choice advisers (109k) - help with moving to secondary school.
- parent training
- training for professionals
- a range of help sheets
- parent consultations.
We need volunteers!
Full Training - Expenses - Support. For more information see our page about becoming a volunteer or ring 01273 481279.
Child Protection
If we become concerned about your child's welfare, we have a professional responsibility to act according to East Sussex County Council's Child Protection Procedures. If this is the case, we will be open and honest with you and explain why we are taking action.
Management
Parent Link is funded by East Sussex County Council and follows the government guidelines for Parent Partnership Services.
The following annual reports are available for you to download in Microsoft Word format.
- 2004 to 2005 annual report (212k)
- 2005 to 2006 annual report (655k)
This site uses Microsoft Word for documents to download. If you do not have any software on your computer which can understand these formats, you can download free Microsoft Office converters and viewers.
