Teachers should make more use of the skills and experiences of grandparents as working parents struggle to get involved in education, inspectors say. In a survey of 25 schools, Ofsted inspectors found grandparents had a "positive influence" on pupils' behaviour, motivation and achievement.
The schools surveyed said they wanted more advice on how to involve parents, grandparents and carers in school life.
The findings follow concern that long working hours jeopardise family life.
The Ofsted report - Parents, carers and schools - found parents and carers who actively helped in school developed a better understanding of how pupils learned and how they could help their child.
But inspectors found many parents did not get the information they needed about how to help their children.
They found schools which encouraged parents to stay at school for the first 10 minutes of lessons saw the most success.
The report encourages schools to identify areas which would benefit most from input from parents and other carers and to involve them in setting school targets.
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