- ABOUT PNS
- MEET THE TEAM
- THE SCOTTISH PARENT AWARDS
- KILTWALK 2024
- …
- ABOUT PNS
- MEET THE TEAM
- THE SCOTTISH PARENT AWARDS
- KILTWALK 2024
- ABOUT PNS
- MEET THE TEAM
- THE SCOTTISH PARENT AWARDS
- KILTWALK 2024
- …
- ABOUT PNS
- MEET THE TEAM
- THE SCOTTISH PARENT AWARDS
- KILTWALK 2024
ABOUT PARENT NETWORK SCOTLAND
Parent Network Scotland (PNS) is a national parent-led organisation based in Glasgow, but working across many local authorities in Scotland. Parent Network Scotland was originally part of Parent Line Plus in London, which was founded in 1986. Parent Network Scotland became independent in 1999 and went on to develop a Scotland-wide network of facilitators.
FREE COURSES ONLINE AND FACE TO FACE FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS
Parent Network Scotland is a Glasgow based charity that is run for parents by parents, all our facilitators have been extensively trained to offer you helpful tools and techniques on our courses. Our family courses make parenting easier and more enjoyable. We also make sure our free online and face to face family learning is fun with many routes you can take through the courses completing with your very own course certificate.
Parent Network Scotland is also supported by a range of contracts from the voluntary and statutory sectors.
The organisation now has a staff team based in Glasgow, with trainees and Family Hub Coordinators located in several local authorities.
Majority funded by the Scottish Government, Big Lottery, Robertson Trust Glasgow city council, Hostling scotland, The Robertson trust, West Dunbartonshire council.
Parent Network Scotland believes in peer-to-peer support and that parents themselves have the solutions to many of the challenges they face, with the support and encouragement of trained parent facilitators and other parents.
Parent Network Scotland believes that parents matter because children matter.
Dr Kelly is an Associate Tutor and Deputy Director of the MSc in Educational Psychology
Dr Kelly has 20 years of experience as Senior Educational Psychologist in Scotland, with a focus on the development of effective real world interventions.
As Lead Editor and author Dr Kelly has developed the frameworks concept for Educational Psychology, integrating models to create coherence from epistemology to practice protocols. The key text Kelly, Woolfson and Boyle (2008) Frameworks for Practice in Educational Psychology is now in its second edition and is listed as essential reading across Educational Psychology Programmmes in the UK, Ireland and in New Zealand and Australia.
In the international context Dr Kelly is Lead Editor and Author, Cambridge Handbook of Implementation Science for Psychology in Education
Parent Network Scotland commissioned external evaluation in 2008 by Dr Kelly et al., which was predominantly qualitative and based on self-report. Results from this study were strongly positive.
Edward House
199 Sauchiehall St
Glasgow
G2 3EX
Scottish Charity NO SC02966
Company NO 189550
Contact Us
info@pns.org.uk
0141 319 5181