quick help needed please - which is correct?

[hobbgoblin]

we help parents to get the assistance and learning they need...

or

we help parents get the assistance and learning they need...

hmm thought so...
My boss seems to think not!

I'd have thought either. But prefer the second.

You have one of those bosses do you? We should swap stories. Mine once told me he wanted to me to make some "major changes" to a document I was preparing (for internal use only). Most of the changes involved things like using the word, "sometimes" instead of "now and again".