Parent Network Scotland is a national charity that uses a unique combination of parent support, training, gaining qualifications and peer-led methods

Our approach offers greater credibility and influence with other parents in local communities, builds community capacity and resilience through our parent networks. Improves parent facilitators' confidence, qualifications, and employability.

Our courses are led by local parents who have completed our extensive accredited training. Facilitators use their skills, backgrounds, experience, and status as parents as the most important elements to engaging other parents. Building trusting relationships so that parents feel encouraged, optimistic and well informed about PNS, particularly those with higher levels of need. Helping shape our course content and methods to reflect the individual and collective needs of parents and their children. Helping parents to develop individual goals for themselves, their children and family and developing local family hubs to support families and reduce isolation.

All of our Parent Group Leaders are assigned a supervisor for observing their practice and course delivery.

We also provide continuing development sessions to exchange skills, reflect on practices, revisit and review course structures and organisation, and co-design new developments.

PNS offers training and ongoing support, including:

Wellbeing Toolkit Training

SPACE (Supporting Parents and Children’s Emotions)

Time to Heal: a trauma-based course developed in collaboration with parents

Introductory accredited 4-day Development Award.

Continued CPD and the opportunity to earn an accredited Community Achievement Award.