A table of parental involvement in children’s learning (PICL) illustrated the training framework Docklands practitioners used. Practitioners described the big changes they had seen because of the Pen Greens values and strategies. After the practitioners understood the PICL, their awareness of the adults role in the child’s learning was improved as they understood why it was important for the parents to help. Before the training children put their artwork into folders in some centres. In other centres observation notes were taken on the children that were then given to parents in portfolios. These portfolios contained the child’s learning and development while at the crèche. Some practitioners proposed that parents had no time to concentrate
