• Concerned about a child?
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership

DSCP logo
  • About us
  • Children and Young People
  • Parents and Carers
  • Practitioners
  • Key Learning
  • Training
You are here: Home / Practitioners / Guidance, toolkits and forms for Practitioners / Engaging with Families Guidance

Engaging with Families Guidance

Engaging with Children and Families Toolkit

The Engaging with Children and Families Toolkit 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.

Seeing the Child Guidance

Seeing the Child guidance supports practitioners who are assessing the child’s development as part of their work with children and families.

Seeing The Child Guidance.pdf

Engaging with Children – Single Assessment Guidance

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 Children Single Assessment Guidance.pdf

Single Assessment and Team Around the Family: A Guide for Parents

This is intended for social workers and provides some suggestions on how to explain assessments to families. It may also be useful for practitioners undertaking Early Help Assessments.

Single Assessment And Team Around the Family – Parent Guide.pdf

Engaging with parents/carers

Provides some useful guidance on engaging with parents and suggested topics/questions.

Engaging With Parents.pdf

Footer

© Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership

  • 03000 265 770
  • dscpsecure@durham.gov.uk

  • Powered by Durham County Council |
  • Accessibility Statement |
  • Legal Information