Lambeth Parents Advocate

Lambeth’s Parent Advocate's key responsibilities are:

  • To develop and promote links with all key parents' groups in Lambeth
  • To be an advocate for parents to support their access to services provided by the CYPS through sign posting
  • To set up, co-ordinate and facilitate the Parents Forum to enable it to feed into the governance structure of the CYPSP
  • To report findings from the Parents Forum to Members, CYPSP and DLT
  • To provide advice for Members, CYPSP and DLT on Parents Forum/Advocacy matters
  • To attend CYPSP, DLT, Scrutiny and other Council meetings as necessary
  • To work closely with a range of officers responsible for promoting parent partnership in order to ensure a co-ordinated approach to working with parents across the borough
  • To liaise with all services within CYPS to promote the voice of parents
  • To advise and support the development of a website for parents
  • To attend and promote the voice of parents at the CYPSP assembly.
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