The Engaging Families Toolkit.pdf and related practice guidance below aims to provide practitioners and managers with guidance to assist the effective engagement of families in the offer of support across all levels of intervention from early help and targeted services through to statutory services.
Guidance for Genograms and Ecomaps.pdf can be printed off and used with children and young people to show family members and friends in their lives.
The The Family Pack of Questionnaires and Scales contains a number of scales and questionnaires to use when assessing families, including the Adult Wellbeing Scale, Adolescent Wellbeing Scale, Parenting Daily Hassles questionnaire, Strengths and Difficulties questionnaire, Recent Life Events questionnaire.
Useful resources
How to have difficult conversations with children
Engaging With Children: preparation, conversations and example questions.pdf: This handout has useful tips to consider when engaging with children and young people with some suggested questions covering topics such as a day in the child’s life, health, school, friendships, relationships and family life.
Engaging With Parents/Carers.pdf: Provides some useful guidance on engaging with parents and suggested topics/questions.