Guide fosters sensitivity to ethnic families

A new toolkit from the National Family and Parenting Institute (NFPI) aims to help practitioners in integrated settings and schools become more culturally aware when dealing with black and minority ethnic families. 'Cultural Competence in Family Support' was developed in response to an NFPI study in 2003, which highlighted that many minority ethnic families faced persistent barriers to services because of their ethnicity, racial background, faith affiliation, social class, literacy levels or lack of access to resources.