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When families and schools work together, children do better. When that relationship breaks down, everything gets harder, from attendance to behaviour to learning. Strong parental engagement is one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, levers a school has.
We help schools build genuine, effective relationships with families and their wider community.
What Is Our Parental Engagement Support?
It is support to strengthen parental engagement and community relationships. We help you understand how families currently experience your school, improve how you communicate and involve them, and build the kind of trust that supports attendance, behaviour, and learning.
The aim is real partnership with families, not just more newsletters.
Who Is Our Parental Engagement Support For?
It is for schools and trusts wanting to build better relationships with parents and their community, reach families who feel distant, or use engagement to support attendance and outcomes. It suits leaders who see families as partners, not an audience.
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What Does Our Parental Engagement Support Include?
- A look at how families experience your school now
- Support to improve communication with parents
- Strategies to reach harder-to-engage families
- Approaches that link engagement to attendance
- Help building trust with your wider community
- Practical, sustainable engagement approaches
- A clear plan you can put into action
How Does Our Parental Engagement Support Help Your School, Academy, Trust, or Setting?
1
See yourself as families do
Schools often assume they are welcoming. We help you understand how families actually experience you, which is where change starts.
2
Communicate better
Much engagement is communication. We help you get the tone, timing, and clarity right, so families feel informed and included.
3
Reach distant families
The families hardest to reach often need engagement most. We help you connect with those who currently feel outside the school.
4
Support attendance
Engaged families support attendance. We help you use the relationship to keep children in school and learning.
5
Build genuine trust
Trust is the foundation of everything with families. We help you build it deliberately, not hope it happens.
6
Strengthen community ties
Schools sit at the heart of their community. We help you build relationships that support the school and the children in it.
7
Make it sustainable
We focus on approaches you can keep going, so engagement becomes how you work, not a short-lived push.
Book a quick, friendly callTwenty minutes with Shaun, our Founder and CEO, to explore how we can help you.
How Our Parental Engagement Support Works
- 1We talk through how families currently experience your school.
- 2We help you improve communication and involvement.
- 3We develop strategies to reach harder-to-engage families.
- 4We connect engagement to attendance and outcomes.
- 5We leave you with a practical, sustainable plan.
What You Get at the End
- A clear view of how families experience your school
- Stronger, clearer communication with parents
- Strategies to reach distant families
- A practical plan to build lasting partnership
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Key Features of Our Service
Family-centred
We start from how families actually experience your school.
Practical
We focus on approaches schools can genuinely sustain.
Outcome-linked
We connect engagement to attendance and learning, not engagement for its own sake.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only in education and understand how much children gain when families and schools genuinely work together. Our support helps you build real partnership with parents and community — the kind that supports attendance, behaviour, and outcomes, and that lasts beyond a single campaign.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to us about your relationship with families.
- We help you build stronger, more genuine engagement.
- Contact us today to strengthen family partnership.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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