The Voice of Parents  continues the Centre’s commitment to promoting client voice and learning from those with lived experience to achieve better outcomes for children and support parents in their critical role in their child’s life.

Anticipated benefits of the project include:

• Parents will be provided with opportunity for their voice to be heard and for greater awareness of their experience in the critical touch points in the child and family system.  This will inform the development of a systemic approach to parental participation through resources such as the Parent Participation Toolkit and the Charter of Parental Participation created through the project.
• The project will develop a model and supporting resources to establish and embed parent participation in organisations in the child and family services sector. This will enable organisations to effectively design and deliver services that best meet the needs of children and families experiencing vulnerability who are accessing their services.
• The project will drive sector collaboration in bringing together a broad range of stakeholders in the design of an effective model and encouragement of implementation.
• The project will develop an evidence base of international and national participatory programs that will build on the limited existing knowledge of parental participation