<p>Promoting Positive Parenting</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:08 pm on 16 November 2016.

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Photo of Carl Sargeant Carl Sargeant Labour 2:08, 16 November 2016

Well, I’m working with my team now to push out the next phase of positive parenting. I think the Member is absolutely right—we have to engage with parents. I’m not convinced, actually, as we sit here today, that poster campaigns or website-based programmes are the real deal for positive parenting. I think there is a lot of peer-to-peer support or mentoring through community groups, whether that be religious church-based groups, or in school settings, or mother and toddler groups, or father and toddler groups. I think it’s really important that we’re able to share examples and it’s a much more positive way of engaging.

The suite of tools that I’m looking at is to provide a package around positive parenting delivered through trusted sources, and then we will also make sure that we legislate, which I know the Member isn’t favourable to. But this is a suite of tools on positive parenting, and we will legislate at the end of that to remove the defence of reasonable punishment.