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.
The Three Houses Tool.pdf can be used in direct work with children to enable them to communicate about their worries, strengths, hopes and dreams and the Adolescent Three Houses.pdf is a version of the Three Houses tool designed for an older age group. (Contact us if you need an accessible version of these documents as they are not produced by DSCP.)
Queen or King of the Island is a tool for undertaking direct work with children to establish who they feel safe (or not) with, and with whom they would wish to have contact. The Queen Or King Of The Island Exercise.pdf is a guidance on using the King or Queen of the Island tool.
My Retracking Tool is a tool that is useful for engaging with children and young people.
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 Scales and Questionnaires.pdf 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.
A day in the life of a child.pdf
Shield against shame diagram.pdf
Some of these documents may not be in an accessible format because they have not been created by DSCP, contact us if you need an accessible version.