We know that most families engaging with children’s social care are facing high levels of adversity, such as poverty, poor mental health, drug and alcohol misuse

We work holistically with local authorities, police, health, education and voluntary sector partners to:

  • Strengthen families and keep them together
     
  • Take a relational approach to working with young people that reduces hand-offs and referrals, creating stability and security.

We have a long history of helping to deliver national programmes including Families First for Children; Strengthening Families, Protecting Children; and the Children’s Social Care Innovation programme.

We also believe that families growing up in deprived neighbourhoods deserve access to high quality early years childcare, and are working with partners to explore how policy and business models can be redesigned to provide this. 


Our approach

Our approach to these challenges is to focus on practice and culture. This means building strong partnerships, growing leaders and managers, and grounding everything in the feedback and voices of children and families.  


How we can help

Local partners

We can help local partners to:

  • Co-design and implement Early Help and Family Help services that strengthen family networks.
     
  • Articulate and embed a common practice model that supports families to make changes.
     
  • Create effective multi-disciplinary Child Protection teams with a shared approach to practice

Funders

We can help funders and investors grow and scale innovative early years providers committed to reducing inequalities, and increasing access to childcare in low income communities

We can act as a learning partner, supporting funded partners to build the capacity and capabilities required to embed lasting change, and enabling funders to understand the impact of their investments. 


Whether you're looking to deliver reforms to children's social care, want to transform how you work with children and families, or are interested in our approach to designing and delivering innovation programmes, we're ready to work with you.