Parenting Practitioners' Reference Library

Members of Parenting UK are welcome to arrange an appointment to visit the Parenting Practitioners’ Reference Library, built up in partnership with colleagues at the Family and Parenting Institute. The library is a unique and growing collection of over 2000 resources on topics related to parenting education and support.

As well as books, journals, research reports and Government policy documents, it includes the primary UK collection of parent and parent practitioner training programmes and their assessments. Members can download the assessments from the Members area of our website.

Enquiry Service

If you have a specific enquiry, the information staff can carry out individual searches on your behalf. The service can provide recommended reading lists, subject bibliographies, and details of key organisations working in your areas of interest. This professional service has many years of experience in providing information to a variety of practitioners, researchers and policy-makers, and aims to answer all enquiries within three days.

Please email the Information Service for more details or phone 020 7284 8389.

If you are looking for parenting programmes to run you might like to look at our Guidance notes on finding parenting programmes. 

Parenting Education Materials (PEM)

Parenting UK has taken over the PEM travelling exhibition, built up by the NCVCCO. It is a unique resource, with around 400 items concerning different aspects of parenting and raising children from newborn to teenagers. Materials include books, manuals, videos, posters, leaflets, audio cassettes and interactive CD-ROMS and are of interest both to parents and those who work with them. The exhibition can be hired on a weekly basis. For more information go to the PEM Page.