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Family Support
Megan Colley
Senior Manager of Policy and EngagementFamily Support TeamDirectorate for Social Services and Children
Welsh Government
Programme for Government
Key focus on supporting children, young peopleand families:
• Expanding Flying Start by doubling the number of children to 36,000
• Supporting the roll out and implementation of Families First
• Continuing the roll out of Integrated Family Support Teams
Families With No Additional
Needs
Families with Complex Needs
This is where IFSS and statutory and
specialist services will focus resources.
Families First will focus on the preventative and protective sections of the continuum of support.
Families With Additional Needs
The Continuum of Support: Integration…
Key changes for Family Support
• Whole family approach
• Strengths based model
• Skilled and trained staff
• Co-ordinated multi agency working
• ‘Early’ and appropriate intervention
Flying Start
Prescriptive entitlement delivering:
• Free quality, p/t childcare for 2-3 year-olds
• Enhanced Health Visiting service
• Access to parenting programmes and to
• Language and Play sessions
Families First
Key Elements
• Joint Assessment Family Framework (JAFF);
• Team Around the Family model (TAF);
• Strategic needs-based commissioning of services;
• Shared learning; and
• improved support for families with disabled children and young people
Families First and Family Learning
• Flintshire Work with Parents Qualification Services Toolkit – resource pack for practitioners Sex and Relationships Session – Family Links Nurturing
Programme Incredible Years material
• Wrexham Early intervention parenting workers – Family Learning
facilitators Families Learning Coordinator inclusion in FF development
• Swansea Agored Cymru level 1 (OCN) for parents attending parenting
groups developed with Family Learning/Basic Skills team.
Further Information
Local Information
Local CYPP or Families First Co-ordinator
Families First Team
E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 02920 82 3053 Website www.wales.gov.uk