This toolkit should be used in conjunction with the County Durham Family Outcome Framework.
The Practice Toolkit provides practitioners with practice guidance on a range of significant issues which are known to have a negative impact on a child’s wellbeing. It also provides a range of resources of national and local evidence based intervention.
Aim of the toolkit
The aim of this toolkit is to provide practitioners with practice guidance on a range of significant issues which are known to have a negative impact on a child’s wellbeing and life chances and ensures:
- children, young people and families receive consistent high quality help and support
- a strength based solution focused approach in our team work with families
- an open, honest and transparent approach to supporting children and their families
- direct help and support is offered to children and parents/carers
- both children and adults needs are addressed, using a ‘think family’ approach to assessment and intervention
- where appropriate will require a collaborative ‘Team around the Family’ using a single multi-agency family plan
- a broad view of protection is taken acknowledging the broad determinates of health and wellbeing are addressed
- the use of evidence based best practice
- child focused practice
- improved outcomes for children and young people
Implementation of Practice Toolkit
Practitioners will be expected to make reference to and implement the guidance within this toolkit. Children Services Case File auditing process will be used to monitor the effective implementation of the guidance.