The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners has an internationally recognised research programme to help bring real change to the way practitioners work with parents.
We are conducting nine research projects that will give evidence around what works in parenting support.
Our SAFE research project looks at how to apply Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in the UK to reduce youth offending.
Helping Children Achieve (HCA) is one of the very few trials of parenting programmes that address both children's behaviour and literacy.
The High Needs research project develops and evaluates an intervention for hard to reach families with complex problems.
Our Fostering Changes trial informs about the most important factors that contribute to successful, stable foster placements.
The Personalisation study takes into account individual parent-child relationships that affect the delivery of parenting programmes.
Our evidence based measurement of parenting skills and problems allows practitioners to assess parenting skills more accurately.
The Commissioning Toolkit of Parenting Programmes evaluates and rates the quality and effectiveness of parenting programmes.
Our evaluation and development of training helps us to answer the many questions about the value and impact of our training.
The Economics of Parenting Programmes project seek to measure the real costs of different interventions.