Families do not need to wait to have a safeguarding issues before taking lessons on this Parenting matters. A stitch in time saves nine.

This customised Africentric Parenting Programme for African and Caribbean families is organised by Save The Woman in partnership with Family Mediation Centre. Objectives are as follows:

• Enlighten parents on laws and regulations in UK

• To promote better understanding between parents, their children and young people.

Many of us were erroneously made to believe that parenting has no manual until we arrived here and noticed that the reason why many families come into contact with child protection and safeguarding issues are very minor issues.

Some of those issues making up key areas of the programme include:

Neglect

Chastisement /Discipline – method

Method of discipline in the UK is different. We need to know and understand what is excessive and what our limits are.

Domestic violence

We need to understand the impact of domestic violence on children and young people.

Cruelty

The kind of discipline we use is sometimes boarder line cruelty in terms of the local laws.

Lack of understanding of mental health issues on children and young people ,which affect response and behaviours.

Cultural issues and believes - circumcision - Female genital mutilation (FGM)

Lack of understanding of and emotional connection with our children

Teaching Children to understand our family values