SCOTTISH MARRIAGE CARE HOST JOINT SEMINAR

This afternoon Scottish Marriage Care will host a joint seminar with Children 1st and Parenting Across Scotland. The seminar is called: 'Supporting the Family: Research Informing Practice'. It aims to raise awareness of the link between the adult relationship and children's development. The seminar also aims to increase partnership working amongst organisations involved with parents, adults or children.

Scottish Marriage Care will present details of groundbreaking new research showing that it is not only what parents do with a child that's important, but also how the two adults relate to each other. This research has informed Scottish Marriage Care's recent work and they have been awarded funding to teach relationship skills to young parents in Easterhouse on the basis of this research. 

Relationship skills are often missing from parenting programmes. In the future Scottish Marriage Care aims to bridge the gap in parenting programmes by delivering a relationships input. They will also offer relationships training to organisations already working with parents.

Scottish Marriage Care's Chief Executive, Mary Toner, said: "We are delighted to be working in partnership with Children 1st and PAS. "This is the first time we have had the opportunity to become involved in an event such as this and we hope it will be a great success."

For further information, please contact:

Mary Toner, Chief Executive 
Scottish Marriage Care, 72 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 7DA

Phone:0141-222 2166
Fax: 0141-222 2144
E-mail: Info@ScottishMarriageCare.org

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