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.

Please email our Information Team  or phone 020 7284 8389.

The Evans Library of Practitioner Resources

The Evans Library is a unique and growing collection of over 2,700 resources related to parenting education and support. Built up in partnership with colleagues at the Family and Parenting Institute, the collection includes books, journals, research reports, government policy documents, AV materials, as well as the primary UK collection of parent and practitioner training programmes. You can also browse the catalogue online, or, if you are a member, the library provides a central and welcoming space for research.

The Library was named in honour of Richard Evans, the benefactor of the Artemis Trust, the first funder of Parenting UK. Richard Evans and his late wife, Gai, made an indispensible contribution to making available services that are respectful of parents and children.

Parenting Education Materials Travelling Exhibition(PEM)

This 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 or to browse the collection online go to the PEM page.

News Bulletin

A members’ News Bulletin is published every two months, covering the latest developments of interest to practitioners. It includes sections on training, resources, funding, forthcoming events and news, as well as providing detailed studies of individual projects and initiatives.

Current Awareness

The Information Service scans a range of websites and publications to produce a regular email update for members covering the latest developments in the parenting education and support sector. It includes details of current consultations taking place that impact upon the work of parenting practitioners and any relevant national, regional and local government announcements or policy developments. The update also details new publications, resources and national and international published research, with links to downloads and abstracts. Additionally there are links to important news.

Databases

The Information Service manages several databases including:

• a database of over 500 national and regional organisations working in parenting education and support;
• a database of over 1,000 individual and corporate members working or interested in parenting education and support;
• a database of over 2,700 resources held in the library, fully searchable by thesaurus-controlled keywords and including links to downloadable documents.