12.1 Parenting Capacity and Learning Disabilities

This practice guidance is about helping practitioners to promote good practice in fulfilling their statutory responsibilities in terms of both supporting parents and safeguarding and promoting children’s welfare. Therefore it is more appropriate to use the term ‘parents with learning disabilities’ because this is the term that is used within the legislation and statutory guidance.

However, practitioners will want to be sensitive to how people define and describe themselves and to use language that parents are comfortable with in their contact with them (Good Practice Guidance on working with parents with a learning disability, 2016 update)

Please review the Pan-Merseyside Parenting Capacity & Learning Disabilities guidance.