Learning disability
and parenting

Ensuring that parents with a learning disability are effective parents is a key part of safeguarding children.This course looks at how to carry out good quality assessments of the capacity of learning disabled parents to meet the needs of their children and provides a framework for effective decision-making. It also covers ways of providing effective help and support for this group of parents as well as assessing and building resilience in children.

Learning outcomes cover:

• Social attitudes to learning disability and their impact on service provision.
• Identifying relevant needs and risks when working with parents with learning disability and their children.
• Identifying and balancing adversity and protective factors.
• Identifying skills to plan strategies for effective intervention.
• Effective communication and engagement with children, young people and their families and carers.
• Child and young person development when the parent is learning disabled.
• Safeguarding the welfare of the child while providing services to support parenting.