ABSTRACT
As Kelly discusses: parents and families are those that ‘know’ their children and young people the best. They have spent many hours, days and years observing, monitoring and meeting the child’s needs, wants and emotions. Families, too, who feel secure in their relationship with the school are more likely to seek advice, help and support should they need it. When the United KIngdom (UK) Government talks or writes about families, the definition they use for a family is ‘a family is a married, civil partnered or cohabiting couple with or without children, or a lone parent, with at least one child, who live at the same address’. Children and young people who have formed secure attachments and have loving, caring families around them are, perhaps not surprisingly, more likely to thrive in school.
