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Background Reach Out is Redbridge Council’s in-house support service for any adult or child aged 16 or over who is experiencing domestic abuse. The service provides practical help and emotional support to victims/survivors, including children and young people who have …
Family Details Mum Jo (21) and Dad Mike (22) have a daughter Leah (10 months) and a son Stuart, who was born several months after the work started. There is a large extended maternal family who supported the parents and …
Maya is mum to her two children, Mia, 9 and Avery, 8. They have been living as a single parent family since Maya left a controlling relationship. What happened? Maya and her two children, Mia 9 and Avery 8 had …
Rachel, 31, is mum to Sam 12, and Jack 7. What happened? Sam was in his first year of high school and was anxious about leaving home in the mornings, so had started to scratch his arms with scissors. He would become angry if things didn't go well at school and was fighting with classmates. At home, Sam sometimes hit Jack and Rachel was nervous about …
As the global COVID-19 pandemic began to emerge in early 2020, Liverpool City Council and local NHS organisations quickly realised that an identification system might be needed to detect people and families with health, financial and social vulnerabilities, who may …
Building Successful Families In Sheffield, national funding from Supporting Families is used to deliver the city's Building Successful Families programme (BSF). This funding is received up-front and has helped Sheffield to accelerate multi-agency working across the city. One aim of …
Case Study : Safer Options is Bristol’s multi-agency partnership response to youth violence, county lines, drug dealing, and children and young people exploited for criminal activities. Bristol's Safer Options approach is supported by the national Supporting Families programme, with local …
More than 600 listeners from the local government, children and families sectors joined MHCLG’s webinar to mark the next phase of Supporting Families (formerly the Troubled Families Programme). Eddie Hughes MP, Minister for Rough Sleeping and Housing, with responsibility for Supporting Families, thanked professionals …
The Troubled Families Programme is founded on a ‘whole family’ approach, with children and young people, together with their parents or carers, working alongside a trusted keyworker. Keyworkers lead plans to promote positive change by referring to local services and coordinating other professionals to support interrelated needs. More than 400,000 families have been …
