The effectiveness on parenting self - efficacy of ‘ 123 Magic ’ programmes

This paper reports an audit to determine the effectiveness of ‘123 Magic’, a groupbased parenting programme that encourages parents to explore, discuss and practice strategies to manage child behaviour. We describe how audit can be used at a local level to provide evidence of effectiveness and areas for quality improvement. Audit can also be useful to determine outcomes locally and to develop new hypotheses for testing through research. We evaluate the effectiveness of ‘123 Magic’ by measuring whether parenting self-efficacy increases after attending a programme. 74 parents took part in the study over 16 '123 Magic' parenting programmes from October 2007 to June 2009. Parents completed the TOPSE evaluation tool as a preand post-course measure of parenting self-efficacy. Scores increased at the end of the parenting programmes for all scales, which suggests that ‘123 Magic’ is effective in terms of improving parenting self-efficacy and also demonstrates the value and contribution of parenting programme facilitators to supporting parents and families in the community.