Parental Involvement

East Lothian Council’s Parental Engagement Strategy aims to ensure that all parents and carers are encouraged and supported to engage as partners in their children’s learning, and to become involved in the life of the school. The strategy also ensures that it can continue to build on good practice and create further opportunities for our parents and schools to work together. Its publication follows consultation with and collaboration between parents, teachers and key education officers and approval at the November 2024 meeting of our Education Committee. The strategy will be reviewed regularly in line with parental engagement legislation.

The core aims of the strategy are to ensure that parents and carers are:

• made to feel welcome and included
• engaged with their children’s learning
• communicated with in a variety of ways
• able to contribute to family learning opportunities
• able to access support
• encouraged to participate in Parent Council meetings and the parent forum

View the Parental Engagement Strategy