Families Parenting orders
A parenting order is targeted at changing a parent's behaviour, to safeguard children's welfare or to address concerns about children's behaviour.
Parenting orders are designed to ensure that parents make use of the help available to them so that they are better equipped to meet their parental responsibilities, no matter what personal difficulties a parent may face.
Any application for a parenting order must be based on a clear assessment of the child's needs, how a parent's actions or failure to act contributes to the child's difficulties and what the parent must to do to bring about improvement.
The order is a means of enforcing parental action where all attempts at voluntary persuasion have failed.
A Parenting Order will not make a difference, unless it leads to
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effective action by parents to tackle family difficulties, including any offending by their child, and
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effective engagement by agencies to enable parents take up appropriate help.
We haven't had the need to use parenting orders within North Ayrshire as yet, however, if you would like more information on this please contact us using the details above.