For schoolsFree for school staff
The teachers’ shelf.
Your pastoral team reads the whole library, free, and sends the right chapter to the parent who needs it.
The Parent Book is a therapist-written library for parents, on things like a friendship that has ended, evenings that have stopped working, or a worry that has started to make decisions for a child. Schools often hear about these before anyone else. The teachers’ shelf lets your pastoral team send a parent a chapter on the thing she has just told them about.
There is no licence, no fee and no partnership to sign.
To use it today
Sign in with your school address.
We email you a link, and the whole library opens. There is nothing for the school to set up.
Sign in to the shelf →Before anyone sends anything
See what a parent receives.
Read it as a parent would, on your phone if you like, and judge the tone for yourself. You do not need to sign in.
Open the example →How it worksThree steps
Your pastoral team reads the library, free.
That means heads of year, form tutors, the school counsellor, or whoever else holds pastoral care. They see the whole library, and there are no accounts for the school to manage.
A staff member sends a chapter to the parent who needs it.
It is a link, pasted into an email the tutor was already writing. There is no portal and no training day, and nothing is asked of staff beyond the conversation they were having anyway.
The parent reads that chapter in full, free, without signing up.
At the end, a short note says the chapter comes from a library written by therapists, and how she can read the rest if she would like to. Whether she subscribes is up to her.
Sign in with your school address and use it today. There is nothing to arrange first.
Before you decideFor the head, the DSL and the bursar
The questions a head, a designated safeguarding lead or a bursar will ask, each answered on a page of its own.
- The library, for your parent communityWhat it is, what your school can use, what it asks of your staff, and what it costs.
- What we hold, and what we do notThe data we hold about children, parents and staff, how the signposting is governed, and what the library is not.
- A page for form tutorsHow to send a parent something useful in half a minute, and what not to write in it.
- The note to send your parent communityWording for a newsletter, a letter or a portal tile, to use as it stands.
- What a parent receivesThe anxiety pack, exactly as a parent opens it when a member of staff sends it. You can read it without signing in.
Beyond the shelfWhen a school wants more
Evenings and briefings, led by the therapists who write it.
Some schools also want a therapist in the room. The therapists who write The Parent Book lead parent evenings on the subjects your families are dealing with, and brief pastoral staff at the start of a term. These are arranged term by term, at a day rate, with no annual commitment.
Every chapter closes with the same clinically maintained signposting block your DSL would want a parent to have, and nothing in the library replaces your school’s own procedures.
Talk to usFor the head, the deputy head and the DSL
If you would like to talk first.
About the shelf before anyone uses it, an evening for your parents, or a briefing for your staff. Leave your details and we will write back personally, or write to hello@theparentbook.com.
Thank you. It has arrived, and we will write back personally, usually within two working days.
The Parent Book is written by qualified therapists registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP and the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society NCPS.
If you are a parentThe library at your child’s school
If the library has helped you and you would like your child’s school to have it, introduce your school. It takes two minutes, and it costs the school nothing.