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Working with families

At Core Children's Services, the child is always central to everything that we do. But we also consider the needs of the whole family. We understand that families are at the heart of a healthy society and delivering family support services to the most vulnerable families is critical to prevent poor outcomes for children and young people.

Uniquely, Core Children's Services offers a wide variety of family support services. Our multiple disciplines of support services for families embrace a range of experienced and trained professionals working within our organisation, enabling us to offer a high quality 'wrap-around' service tailored to individual needs.

We also understand the importance of forming relationships with family members to provide a flexible and sensitive approach that meets the whole family's needs.

Our approach to supporting families

Through early interventions, we aim to increase participation and improve achievements of disadvantaged young people. This means delivering targeted, personalised family support which prevents the emergence of subsequent problems for children and young people.

How can we help?

Core Children's Services provides the following family support services:

Support and interventions

• Targeted intervention and family support
• Supervised or supported contact at a range of venues
• Working Together to Make Contact Happen
• Independent social work partnerships
• Therapy and counselling services
• Adoption special guardianship support

Disability Services

• Family based short breaks
• In home family support
• Befriending and outreach
• Activity groups and sibling groups

For families who prefer to have child specific services through Direct Payments or an Individualised Budget, Core Children’s Services Disability Team can help. Please follow this link to learn more:

Direct Payments and Individualised Budgets for families

Contact Services

Core Children’s Services contact provision includes:

• Supervised contact
• Contact assessment
• Supported contact
• Venue hire
• Transport
• Escort services
• Activity based contacts
• Life story work
• Parenting assessments
• Court reports
• Working Together to Make Contact Happen
• Sibling contact
• Indirect contact services

Education Services

• Educational support programmes
• Personalised tutoring
• Securing educational provision
• Alternative education programmes

Service Delivery

Services can be provided through individual or large contracts, as an integrated range of family services or integrated within the exiting mechanisms within your organisation.

Why choose Core Children’s Services for family services?

By involving families, we work directly with the people affected by wider issues in Children's Services. We understand that building stronger family units can provide the right environment for sustainable success.

Strong families give children love, identity, a personal history and a secure base from which to explore and enjoy life as they grow up. Strong families also help build strong communities, so they are crucial for a successful society.

Please explore the pages within this section to learn more.