By Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton (Optimus Education, 45, 978-1-905538-69-0).
This ring-bound resource aims to help early years practitioners to develop and maintain strong, positive relationships with the families using their settings and to engage parents in all aspects of their child's development.
It looks at how to create a parent-friendly ethos, provides resources to support parental engagement and reviews research evidence and government policy on parental involvement.