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It traces how relationships between parents and schools shifted over decades through governance and school choice, and evaluates Every Parent Matters as a distilled policy framework. The study highlights a class-tilted model, stressing information access and compliance consequences over practical empowerment mechanisms.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/every-parent-matters-reflections-from-england-upon-new-labours-parent-policy/597477/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/every-parent-matters-reflections-from-england-upon-new-labours-parent-policy/597477.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"pop out","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-06","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":24},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What core issues does the paper examine in New Labour’s parent policy?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"The paper examines parental voice and choice, questions of trust and contracts, and the concept of parent empowerment under a policy direction that favored the middle class.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How did the relationship between parents and schools change over time in England?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It shifted from teachers’ professional autonomy to more informal two-way contact, and then toward a gradual transfer of power to parents via school choice and governance, while some parents were treated as less trusted partners.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What does the paper argue about empowerment in Every Parent Matters?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Despite stated aims in the introduction, the paper finds limited evidence of practical ways for parents to influence the services they used or to achieve a more equitable balance of power.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},597477,1792741723,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":24,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145,"preview_page_count":4},962090760408,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_085a072bc5b1113ac321206ff7593b45","EVERY PARENT MATTERS:  \nREFLECTIONS FROM ENGLAND UPON NEW LABOUR’S PARENT POLICY  \nHoward Gibson and Catherine A. Simon, Bath Spa University  \nIn England, until May 2010, the New Labour party had been in power for thirteen years. This paper is a reflection back upon its period in office and its strident  \npolicies on parents and families. It questions its stance on parental voice and  \nchoice, looks at issues of trust and contract, and considers the idea of parent empowerment in the context of a preference for the middle class that underpinned much ofits policy.  \nEvery Parent Matters  \nDuring the last fifty years England has witnessed sweeping changes in the relationship of parents with schools. From the often unquestioned “professional” autonomy of teachers in the 1950s, to a move in the 1970s toward more informal, two-way contact, until today where, for two decades or more, there has been the gradual transference of power via school choice and governance to parents. From the perspective of schools in more recent times, legislative changes have encouraged parents to become less trusted partners in the education of their children and more distanced, contracted outsiders, with a minority needing firm management through quasilegal agreements. Many of the reasons for these changes were enshrined in Every Parent Matters  \n(Department for Education & Science [DfES], 2007), a document that was the culmination and distillation of New Labour‟s policy on parents for its lengthy period in office. It summarised the government‟s understanding of the link between successful parenting and social mobility by defining the state‟s expectations of parents in terms of their rights and responsibilities:  \n…for the first time and in one place what we have been doing to promote both the development of services for parents as well as their involvement in shaping  \nservices for themselves and their children. It assesses where we are to date, the gaps and how we propose to fill them. It also marks the beginning ofwhat I hope will be a national debate with parents, children and young people, as well as  \nservice planners, commissioners and providers as to how parents can best be  \nsupported and engaged. (DfES, 2007, p. 1)  \nNew Labour justified its involvement in the “intensely personal experience” of parenting (DfES, 2007, p. 1) on two counts. First, changes to the social and economic fabric of the country meant that parenting was becoming harder. Family structures were changing, and parents, especially of teenagers, were asking for help and support. From a survey of 2000 parents in poor neighbourhoods it was reported that “no less than two-thirds ofthe parents said that they would like more information about parenting and about half would like help or support at least sometimes”(Ghate & Hazel, 2002, p. 247) . This apparent cry for help was placed in close proximity with statements that “4 out of 10 young people” claimed they had received little “frank and unembarrassed discussion of risk taking” from their parents (DfES, 2007, p. 4) . A connection between poor parenting and teenage pregnancy was inferred. Second, New Labour acknowledged the link between family background and educational achievement. The social trajectory of children from low-income groups was recognised as persistently less favourable. The drive to improve educational outcomes and increase social mobility for more vulnerable families extended to “enabling parents to help their children make choices about options,  \nservices and lifestyles” and “play a major role as informed users of public services and…exercise influence over the quality of such services”(DfES, 2007, p. 6) .  \nOverall, though, there was little evidence in Every Parent Matters of practical ways of empowering parents to affect changes to the services they used, or to enhance partnerships that might indicate a more equitable balance of power, despite such aims being made unequivocally in the introduction. In contrast, ","cbCaicIaRhaNFc5o","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicIaRhaNFc5o","pdf",291310,25,"English","# Every Parent Matters\n## Changing Relationships Between Parents and Schools\n## Responsible and Irresponsible Parents","[{\"question\":\"What core issues does the paper examine in New Labour’s parent policy?\",\"answer\":\"The paper examines parental voice and choice, questions of trust and contracts, and the concept of parent empowerment under a policy direction that favored the middle class.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the relationship between parents and schools change over time in England?\",\"answer\":\"It shifted from teachers’ professional autonomy to more informal two-way contact, and then toward a gradual transfer of power to parents via school choice and governance, while some parents were treated as less trusted partners.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the paper argue about empowerment in Every Parent Matters?\",\"answer\":\"Despite stated aims in the introduction, the paper finds limited evidence of practical ways for parents to influence the services they used or to achieve a more equitable balance of power.\"}]","EVERY PARENT MATTERS - REFLECTIONS FROM ENGLAND UPON NEW LABOUR’S PARENT POLICY | PDF",1792085087,63]