Parent Champions

A proven engagement model

Despite significant investment in Early Years provision and efforts to reduce Child Poverty over the past decade, a significant group of target beneficiaries have failed to access the support available to them.

Pinnacle People operate an engagement and progression programme which uses peer to peer activities to achieve significant increases in awareness, engagement and progression. 

This service is our Parent Champions model, designed with extensive input from parents that have experience of using formal childcare and who are able to sell the benefits to other parents that are not accessing information or guidance on local childcare. 

Our Parent Champion model is proven to have a positive impact on children, families and the wider community by raising awareness and improving access to mainstream childcare provision, factors which have a positive impact on deprived or marginalised families.  

Accessing childcare helps parents take the first steps back to active involvement in the community through education, training, volunteering or employment, improving the economic well-being of families. Children benefit from formal childcare by developing their language and social skills through interaction with other children of the same age.   

Our service extends the reach of these benefits further into the community than other engagement activities.

Since November 2008 we have delivered the Parent Champion service for  the London Boroughs of Camden and Newham engaging over 1,000 parents with information and awareness of available childcare.

To find out more, please contact:

Lee Trappitt  I  Project Manager  I  020 7427 5160  I  lee.trappitt@pinnaclepeople.co.uk