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A view on early help and troubled families from Alison Michalska
President, ADCS In April this year I became President of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS). The role is an absolute privilege and one that I undertake alongside being...
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Update from Troubled Families Programme
Hannah Meyer This has been an important week for the Troubled Families Programme. We have published several updates including the latest from the on-going national evaluation of the programme and also...
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Parental Conflict and the Local Family Offer
Jan Mitcheson Why consider parental relationships? It is evidently clear that inter-parental relationships characterised by acrimonious and destructive conflict are harmful for children. Parental...
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Bringing families and employers together
In Middlesbrough we recently organised a very successful job fair which brought together 12 local employers, various training providers and more than 200 benefit claimants with complex needs. As a...
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Proving the worth of early help
Why focus on Cost Benefit Analysis? In Greater Manchester we have seen first-hand how important a robust approach to evaluation and Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) is in supporting effective decision...
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‘Data takes the strain’ for good outcomes in West Sussex
Delivering an effective service to customers with complex needs is necessarily a data-driven enterprise. From a preventative perspective we need to know who our at-risk families are, where they live,...
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Taking a whole system approach to children’s mental health
A new and independent Care Quality Commission (CQC) review of mental health services has set out how local systems can ensure that children and young people have timely access to high-quality mental...
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The importance of information sharing within the Troubled Families programme
‘Information sharing’, or ‘sharing information’, whichever way you say it, are two words which sound so easy. And many people who work within the public sector don’t even consider information sharing...
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Leading Health for Troubled Families in Hampshire
Poor health is a problem for many families and that is why, in Hampshire, we have created a dedicated health lead for Hampshire’s 'Supporting Families Programme.' My role is jointly funded by the...
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Ministerial visit to Liverpool
I am delighted that my first visit as a Minister in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government was to see the work of the Troubled Families Programme in action in Liverpool on March...
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