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Current Need for Child Welfare. A child's need for parental care is universal. Geographical boundaries and the attitudes of a society at a given time mark tremendous differences in the provisions made to deal with deprivation of parental care, but need for parental care does not change. Neither does need for the favorable economic conditions, nor for the social supports that permit and sustain good parental functioning.

In this chapter four teachers working in different educational settings write about their own work with parents. Any example demonstrating PACT in practice necessarily reflects the school's and its teachers' individuality, and those we have chosen certainly do this. They display, too, the richness and the broadening effects of parental involvement extending beyond the boundaries parental of reading.

By the 1960s, however, parental involvement in the playgroup movement and a number of influential research reports (Douglas 1964) were beginning to open up the question of parental influence on children's educational achievement. The much maligned Plowden report (DBS 1967) moved the argument on dramatically by accepting and openly stating that parental attitudes, rather than wealth or status, were the foundation stones of good pupil achievement.