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.
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.