Improving our children’s futures by empowering parents and carers.

Parents and carers carry an extraordinary responsibility: raising the next generation.

Yet the world surrounding children and families has become increasingly complex.

Parents navigate schools, colleges and universities; health and mental health services; childcare and SEND; local and national government; qualifications and exams; careers and apprenticeships; charities, specialists, regulators and countless other organisations.

There is an enormous amount of knowledge, expertise and support available.

But it is fragmented.

Knowing where to start, what information to trust, who can help or where to turn next can be difficult and time-consuming — particularly when something has gone wrong.

And the fragmentation goes much further than information and support.

Parents are surveyed and consulted. They give feedback, join PTAs and governing bodies, participate in forums and community groups, establish campaigns and charities, and share their experiences in countless different places.

Millions of parents and carers accumulate enormous knowledge and lived experience simply through raising their families.

But much of that knowledge remains dispersed across individual families, organisations and systems.

Parents and carers need a better way to connect, navigate and influence.

NPA is being created to help provide it.

NPA is being built as a membership organisation that provides practical value to parents and families, as well as a national platform for their collective participation and influence.

Planned services — in development

These services are not available yet. We will explain the scope and access arrangements as each develops.

A trusted parent helpline

Somewhere to start when you have a question, encounter a problem or simply don't know where to turn.

A national parent directory

Making it easier to find relevant information, organisations, services, specialists and support without spending hours searching.

Practical information, guides and resources

Clear, accessible information to help parents understand their options and navigate the issues families encounter.

Expert briefings, events and conversations

Opportunities to hear from and question people with knowledge and expertise across the issues affecting children and families.

Advocacy and specialist support

Helping members understand their options, communicate effectively with organisations and, where appropriate, access more direct advocacy and specialist assistance.

Family legal support and protection — in development

We are exploring legal support and insurance services designed to give NPA members access to advice and assistance when eligible problems or disputes arise.

Opportunities to participate and influence

Surveys, research, consultations, working groups and other ways for parents and carers to contribute their experience and help shape NPA's priorities.

And this is only the beginning.

We want to build the membership organisation parents and carers tell us they need.

Register your interest now. We'll keep you informed as NPA develops and invite you to help shape what comes next.

Government, schools, regulators and other organisations already ask parents questions.

That matters.

But there is an important difference between answering the questions institutions choose to ask and having independent infrastructure through which parents themselves can help identify the questions that need asking.

NPA intends to listen systematically and at scale.

Through surveys, polling, research, discussions and lived-experience evidence, we'll explore what families are experiencing, what is working, what isn't, where problems are emerging and what parents believe needs to change.

We won't assume parents all agree.

Agreement is evidence. Disagreement is evidence too.

Our role is to understand both — and bring what we learn into public debate, policymaking and our wider advocacy.

Not only asking parents what institutions want to know — helping identify what parents think institutions need to know.

NPA isn't a government initiative, a political campaign or a single-issue organisation.

It has been created by parents and carers who believe families need something that has been missing: permanent, independent national infrastructure of their own.

Our starting point isn't government, politics or institutions.

It's children, parents, carers and families.

We want to work constructively with schools, professionals, researchers, charities, businesses, policymakers, government and political parties where doing so can benefit children and families.

But NPA will remain independent and non-party-political.

As our membership grows, parents and carers themselves should increasingly shape the questions we ask, the evidence we gather and the priorities we pursue.

Parents and carers aren't simply users of services.

Among millions of parents are teachers, nurses, engineers, lawyers, researchers, carers, business owners, tradespeople, scientists, designers, volunteers, public servants — and people with every imaginable form of professional and lived experience.

And every parent brings something else: knowledge gained through raising a family.

NPA wants to harness that extraordinary resource.

By bringing together parents, carers, educators, experts and partner organisations from across society, we aim to strengthen family engagement, support better-informed policymaking and encourage healthier national conversations.

All focused on improving children's lives, opportunities and long-term futures — for families and for society as a whole.

We're also looking for people who can contribute their time, skills, knowledge or experience as we build the organisation.

Whether your background is in research, technology, communications, law, education, fundraising, policy, design, community organising, administration — or something we haven't thought of yet — we'd love to hear from you.