How Parent Club can help you help families

By recommending the Parent Club website to the parents and carers you work with, you’re ensuring they can access trustworthy, expert advice whenever and wherever they need it. You can quickly and easily direct them to specific areas of the website to support conversations you’re having, answer any questions and signpost them to further sources of support and help.

Here are some things you can suggest:

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Add Parent Club to the home screen of their phones

Parent Club is designed to be ‘mobile first’, so it works smoothly on your phone, just like an app. Parents and carers can add a shortcut to the Parent Club website on their phones, so it’s immediately accessible at the click of a button. Here’s how:

Android

Open Chrome on your Android device.
Go to www.parentclub.scot.
To the right of the address bar, tap the three dots to open the menu.
Scroll down the list of options and then tap Add to home screen.
A ‘Create shortcut’ dialogue box will pop up. Select the default name or rename the shortcut ‘Parent Club’.
Tap Add. The Parent Club logo will now appear on your home screen for easy access.

iPhone

Open the Safari app on your iPhone.
Go to www.parentclub.scot.
Tap the Share button in the menu bar (the square with an upward arrow).
Scroll down the list of options, then tap Add to Home Screen.
A dialogue box will pop up. Select the default name or rename the shortcut ‘Parent Club’.
Tap Add. The Parent Club logo will now appear on your home screen for easy access.

Sign up for the Parent Club email programme

The Parent Club email programme guides parents from pregnancy through to the start of school, with regular emails landing in their inbox just when they need them. Plus seasonal emails support them from New Year through the summer holidays to back to school time and Christmas.

Join Parent Club on social media

You could also suggest the families you work with join our online communities on Facebook or Instagram, for timely tips and advice throughout the year.

Create collections for your families

Parent Club has information and tips on a wide range of parenting topics. This includes issues that you may well be discussing with the families you visit, like pregnancy, birth and child development, growing up and keeping happy and healthy. And it also includes wider issues that can affect families, such as childcare, money and work, bereavement, screen use, parental mental health and family relationships.

You can provide families with the information they need by making them a Collection.

You can also share these links with colleagues for quick reference.