Ealing brighter futures intensive engagement model: working with adolescents in and on the edge of care

Ealing’s Brighter Futures Intensive Engagement Model is a complex, whole system intervention that was launched in June 2015. Its implementation was intended to support and enable the children’s social care workforce to build effective, consistent relationships with adolescents, families, communities and carers, and to use those successful relationships to bring about positive change

Social Work Practices: Report of the National Evaluation

An independent evaluation was commissioned by the Department for Education (formerly the Department for Children, Schools and Families) to:1. analyse the advantages and disadvantages of the overall Social Work Practice concept, and the specific benefits (or otherwise) of the different models employed and any lessons for alternate models;2. identify the impact of SWP pilots on children, their carers and their families;3. discover the impact of the SWP model on the children's social care workforce;4. identify the impact of SWP pilots on statutory child care social work in the hostlocal authorities and on the work of other agencies

What kind of trouble? Meeting the health needs of ‘troubled families’ through intensive family support

The policy rhetoric of the UK Coalition government's ‘Troubled Families’ initiative, and that of New Labour's earlier Respect Agenda, share an emphasis on families’ responsibilities, or rather their irresponsibility, and their financial costs to society. Giving children a chance of a better life coincides, in this framing, with reducing costs for the taxpayer. The research reported here was based on a national study of Family Intervention Projects (FIPs), funded by the UK government between 2009 and 2012, beginning under New Labour, continuing over a period when the FIP programme was discontinued, and ending after the Troubled Families programme had begun. The research involved over 100 in-depth interviews with stakeholders, including service managers, family key workers, and caregivers and children in twenty families, to consider critical questions about the kinds of trouble that families experience in their lives, and how they are recognised in the policy and practice of intensive family intervention

Access to community services and support through family and friends during the pandemic: Families in Tower Hamlets survey and panel findings

Summarises findings of a survey and panel of ESRC funded Families in Tower Hamlets, services and communitie