1. Birmingham Children, Young People and Families Directorate
Family Support and Safeguarding

2. Family Support and Safeguarding
Lord Laming 2003
‘it is not possible to separate the protection of children from wider support to families. Indeed, often the best protection for a child is achieved by the timely intervention of family support services’.
further highlighted by Professor Munro, 2011.
‘the provision of early help is vital to keeping children safe’.
Family Support and Safeguarding

3. Co Location of teams
From April 2013 Family support Teams and Social Work Teams have relocated into area hubs.
Co locating Family support workers and Social Workers together has created a greater cohesion between teams alongside extending links to local services and identifying support for families that qualify under the “Troubled Family “ agenda.

4. Team locations – Hub Children’s Centres
East
Fox Hollies
Kitts Green
Dyson Gardens
Golden Hillock
Park Road
South
Albert Bradbeer (Merrishaw)
Reameadow
Chinnbrook
Doddington
West & Central
The Willows
Birchfield
St Thomas
North
Circle
Featherstone

5. Social Work intervention
Requests for Social work intervention from the area safeguarding teams should be directed through the single access no
The project in Shard End sought to intervene earlier with FCN’s and to see Adult Services & Children Services working together
As the programme was rolled out The comments from professionals on the ground was that ‘family CAF makes perfect sense’ as many of CYP’s challenges were generated by Adult indicators e.g Adult Mental Health, Worklessness, Housing, Finance, Parenting, Conflict within families and the community, Adult disabilities, Alcohol/drug dependency.
The existing CAF process addresses many of these issues but the focus was always on CYP outcomes and not the positive response for adults outcomes

6. Accessing the Family Support teams
1. Call CIASS ( Children's information advice and support service )
new single point of access no

7. Safeguarding & Support Teams
Child & The Family
Integrated CIC teams
Safeguarding & Support Teams
CIAS
Locality Area Safeguarding and Support Service
Family Support and Safeguarding

8. Accessing the Family Support teams
2. Attend “Team around the family “meetings to gain professional advice and support on individual cases.

9. Team around the family process
Identify needs for child / family
Use family CAF to co ordinate your
response and that of others at
additional need level.
Use Team around the Family meetings to
request services eg from integrated support
and safeguarding teams and others

10. fCAF and referral process for safeguarding and family support
Child or Families identified as
having ‘Additional Needs’ &
multi-agency response required by
Universal or Partner Agency
Family Common
Assessment (fCAF)
Safeguarding Family
Support Services:
Discussion &
Allocation meeting
Integrated
Support
Plan *
Team Around Family
Meeting
Continuation of
fCAF
Integrated
Support Plan
Review *
TAF Process – May 2013 v10 , JN

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