This practice guide focuses on parenting support for families experiencing adversities who have at least one child or young person aged 11 to 18 years old. The guide relates to all four outcomes of the United Kingdom's Children’s Social Care National Framework. The guide is one of a series of practice guides that set out the best available evidence to support senior leaders and practitioners in local authorities to drive the conditions for effective practice and improve how services are commissioned, developed and delivered. 

The support recommended in this guide can improve parenting skills, family functioning and child behaviour, while also reducing parenting stress and improving parental mental health.

The guide sets out key principles and recommendations for evidence-based parenting support for parents experiencing multiple adversities. The principles have been grouped into three themes: working with families, meeting families’ needs and local system culture. The guide recommends evidence-based parenting programs that can be broadly split across two types: family therapy interventions and parent support programs. 

The guide is accompanied by a reflective tool for actioning the parenting through adversity practice guide.