This year we have sought parents ' views on the special educational needs crisis, crime and their children ' s safety, their own loneliness, their children ' s happiness, behaviour, discipline and much more.

Our aim is to provide clarity to policymakers, researchers and those supporting parents through the challenges they face. The National Parent Survey is a call to action for governments across the nations to help parents as they do the most important job any of us will ever do.

Children spend the vast majority of their childhood outside of a classroom, but we spend very little time talking about what happens beyond the school gates. That’ s where Parentkind comes in.

As the largest parent charity in the UK, we work with over 14,000 parent groups and almost two hundred thousand parent volunteers who support other parents and children, strengthen communities and build relationships- all while raising almost £ 140 million a year for schools. If a school has a parent group supporting it, it is likely they are part of the Parentkind community.

We hope that you will find this report useful, but I encourage you to go further to explore the wealth of additional data from the YouGov survey available at www. nationalparentsurvey. com. There you can examine the views of parents by nation, region, type of school, family income, relationship status, age of child, phase of education, gender of parent or child, and more.

At Parentkind, we never pit parents against teachers. There is no them and us- most teachers are parents themselves and know the difference they can make. We need to get serious about the role of parents in schools and their role in raising children, from birth right through to the teenage years. That’ s why we publish the National Parent Survey.

The data in the National Parent Survey should spark debate. It should make parents part of our conversation and part of the solution to many of the challenges facing society today.

Jason Elsom Chief Executive, Parentkind

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