ABSTRACT
The Plowden Report (1967) turned an official spotlight on parental partnership in schooling for the first time. The Taylor Report (1977), a decade or so later in the mid-1970s, gave it another airing. Since the Second World War, a variety of parental initiatives in slightly different contexts in different parts of the country have spluttered unconvincingly and sporadically into life, and just as soon subsided as the composition and priorities of LEAs have changed and, more frequently, individual headteachers have come and gone.
