Helping children choose the right path in Sandwell
For children up and down the country, starting high school means growing up, and taking on a whole new world of friends and role models. Unfortunately, not all these influences are good ones. Police...
View ArticleNSPCC’s new tool for navigating conversations with children about abuse
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...
View ArticleThanking local areas as Supporting Families 2021-22 launches
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...
View ArticleReducing youth crime and exploitation in Bristol
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...
View ArticleSupporting Families through School Inclusion in Sheffield
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...
View ArticleTackling the COVID-19 impact with data in Liverpool
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...
View ArticleWorking together to cope better : A family’s journey
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....
View ArticleRebuilding resilience : A family's journey
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...
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